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Microsoft: We took MikeRoweSoft too seriously
Talkback Lay off Microsoft - ever considered that maybe they are such control freaks and protective of their stuff BECAUSE people seem to want to rip THEM off? You really are kidding right? At the end of the day, MS is just another company who got their...
[April 20, 2006, 19:07]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Any week that starts with me having to rip the top off my PC is not going to go smoothly, but, nevertheless, have great fun with a new video card, Motion Picture from Advanced Technologies Manufacturing Ltd.
[August 2, 1996, 18:34]
What Microsoft should do with its pot of gold
Talkback Can I just correct one piece of IT folklore that is absolute rubbish: MS did not rip the Windows GUI off Apple. As anyone who's older than 12 knows the entire the WIMP (Windows Icons Mouse Pointer) GUI (Graphical User Interface) was developed by...
[August 1, 2003, 13:59]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback LOL .every piece of ms-ware is a rip off of a similar product.word : wordperfect, excel : lotus, .net : java, visual studio : turboC++, mswindos : (DR tos, workbench, macos, riscos, x-windows)) . If they were so innovative, how come all of their...
[July 13, 2005, 22:05]
Sellers sue eBay over double-billing
Talkback you guys need to come up with a big team to go against and sue ebay,,they make tons of money off us,,but they allow others to use their company to rip us off even wayyyyyyyyy more.we need to amke a site where everyone can be able to go on and file...
[August 2, 2005, 20:36]
BombSquad
Downloads You get BombSquad - a nimble rip-off of a classic game. Take the good looks of Mac OS X and its "Aqua" interface, and mix liberally with the popular "Windoze" Minesweeper puzzle/game. BombSquad is fantastic freeware for Mac OS X.
[October 14, 2008, 14:58]
Software patent fight moves to Parliament
Talkback because companies here wouldn't be able to rip-off the British/European public by monopolising markets like they do in America? "This is a situation which would have put UK businesses at a distinct disadvantage within the global knowledge-driven...
[May 23, 2004, 19:37]
BatteryWizard - themes, full charge, flashlight
Downloads Charge sound alert that will only alert when battery is really full(most of the apps rip you off by alerting when it reached 100%, Li Ion batteries have the ability to charge beyond 100% and it will take a while to complete.
[December 19, 2009, 21:15]
can't quite see what the problem is!
Talkback There is no rip off - you either want the product or you don't. Most of the people who have posted on this site have little experience of the situation. Thay are, on the whole, guessing at what is on offer!
[May 6, 2007, 20:53]
Net to end Great British Car Rip-0ff
News As part of its Great British Car Rip-Off campaign, the Consumers' Association has set up an online car import scheme, which it claims will save consumers an average of £3,500 on the cost of buying a car.
[March 29, 2000, 10:47]
Plundering the Public Sector
Member Review If you want to know how the public sector works, or why and how large projects fail, this book is for you, although the sections on the evils of management consultancy essentially rehash last year's Rip-Off!
[August 4, 2006, 10:40]
Easynet vows to unbundle more of Britain
Talkback It's another case of ROB Rip Off Britain ! All well and good but this is NOTHING compared to what's available to the home user in Japan for LESS than we are paying here in the UK for 0.5Mb
[January 13, 2004, 16:13]
SP2's firewall is not good enough
Talkback I have known for many years that windows itself is just a poorly made rip off and a bunch of third party sofware bundled together that hasnt cost bill gates even remotly close to what he has made off microsoft.
[December 26, 2004, 5:29]
Tech-savvy shoplifters 'could alter RFID tags'
Talkback Its harder to rip barcodes and prices off, they tear and some have the items name on them, also if a particular item is normaly expensive a tiller could tell, i know. then for the time being rf-id will just have to be used for internatl use, and...
[July 29, 2004, 20:48]
European Apple fans protest at pricing
Talkback Not quite such a rip-off, I believe. The $499 price tag in America is *ex*clusive of sales tax, because this varies from state to state. In the UK prices are advertised *in*clusive of VAT which accounts for £51.50 of the "extra" £71.
[January 18, 2005, 11:17]
PC vendors snub antitrust altered Windows
Talkback Why dont they find out something useful like why we brits pay pound-dollar prices for the same thing Full version of XP $139 and £145 now that's a rip off. They havent got a clue. What a complete waste of time.
[June 16, 2005, 13:24]
Orange roaming rates claim another victim
Talkback If they're going to rip me off as soon as I step out of the UK I'm not going to bother! It's doubly ironic that as I read about the Orange discontent I'm faced with a flashing banner advertising Orange's 'mobile email solutions' and encouraging me...
[February 1, 2006, 12:50]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback Not really, Apart from the fact that record labels may miss the oportunity rip the Great British public off once again. If an artist sells a million albums worldwide does it matter which country the cds were sold in?
[January 21, 2004, 11:10]
Digital asset management - guts versus gloss
Blog Starting the week off with a whole load of tech news to digest, I was tempted (for no good reason) to let rip on the digital asset management industry this morning and voice my own loudly vented spleen in no uncertain terms.
[February 16, 2009, 11:11]
RipIt
Downloads Why Rip Your DVDs? RipIt gets your movies off the disc and onto your Mac, where it's easier to find, organize and play them. Movies are great, but discs are a pain. Use your laptop longer! Easily organize your movies!
[December 15, 2009, 14:47]
