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A Life With Windows
News MSDOS was a straight rip-off of CP/M, an older operating system from Digital Research. Windows was a very poor rip-off of Apple's operating system for the then-new Apple Mac. In a short time he had moved from the position of rip-off merchant with...
[November 25, 2005, 8:05]
Jane Wakefield: I Spy With My Little Eye
News Perhaps the funniest thing to emerge from the whole RIP debacle was e-envoy Alex Allan's attempts to defend it in a speech made on a tour of the US this week. As dedicated followers of all things e-commerce and Internet, it is quite ironic that its...
[July 3, 2000, 10:10]
Oh, Reggie Bosanquet, Why Did You Go Away?
Blog Make it like a Bladerunner replicant, and we can relate without reservation - well, if it's not busy trying to rip our head off by our nostrils or blow us away with some heavy hand artillery. But the main news reader is just wrong - and the strange...
[October 25, 2006, 18:04]
UK Firms 'forget' To Pay £1bn For Software
News I genuinely think that within businesses it is an oversight of management rather than a determination to rip off software because of high pricing. There is an argument that people rip off software because the price of software is too high, but I...
[July 7, 2004, 15:30]
Virtual Hotel Cracks Down On Cybersex
Talkback I find that habbo hotel is a big rip off. I was watching my child trying to buy habbo credits just so she can be like all her mates, who are hc. I had to stop her from going on there as it was heartbreaking watching her struggle to become one of...
[August 10, 2006, 16:49]
XP Media Center Gets Makeover
Talkback ITS A RIP OFF I WAS ABOUT TO BUY THE PRESENT ONE, AND NOT ABLE TO UPGRADE IT.
[February 24, 2004, 17:15]
Watchdog Issues Rogue-dialler Help
Talkback what a rip-off this company are I fell into trap of these charaltans taking best part of £600.00 from my debit card in June '05 was told to return documents within 30 days for full refund as you can imagine I am still waiting.Has anyone actualy...
[September 16, 2005, 9:14]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The worst cable has to be PCWorlds £14.99 USB 1.1 Cable that was a rip off, they only stopped that recently. I had heard these cables cost pennies. And Manek you cant beat Tesco there the best lol, check out there Antivirus and office software lol...
[December 6, 2007, 10:30]
Tesco Puts Broadband In Trolley
Talkback I'm with E7 it is not the best, but at £12.50p/m for 2mb per sec, it shows how much BT, TESCO, AOL, rip us off big time. I was with Tesco for years only to find out I was been ripped off. Best Broadband at the lowest price.
[January 9, 2006, 11:06]
Orange Customer Fights £800 Roaming Bill
Talkback This lasted long enough for me to call Orange and rant at the rep about the blatant rip-off that I felt I was being subjected to. At first, I was shocked and surprised at the actual rate charged. I, too, have fallen victim to exorbitant data chares...
[March 25, 2006, 1:51]
RentACoder: EBay For Contractors?
Talkback Hence a sense of favorism towards buyers is clearly visible and this buyer always used such an unfair favorism to deceive and rip off many coders of their rightful money like myself and run away with completed projects under the protection of...
[February 8, 2005, 19:04]
BTopenworld, NTL Top Complaints Charts
Talkback They won't back down so I'm reporting the whole matter to Ofcom--can you imagine the balls to rip someone off for that much loot? In June they installed it, but I explained after two weeks that it was no longer required, due to the client requiring...
[November 16, 2005, 20:58]
Oasis' McGee: '£14.99 For A CD Completely Unjustified'
News Arguments centred around the moral dilemma -- or not -- facing consumers who "choose to rip off musicians", as Fionnuala Duggan, VP of New Media at EMI Recorded Music, put it. But it was the major record labels that came off worse during the course...
[May 16, 2000, 10:28]
£100 For An ITunes Download: The Real Cost Of Roaming
Talkback I will NEVER roam on any UK sim ever again (or until these rip-off charges are outlawed). I was stung for a bill of £200 by Orange for using my mobile in Tenerife. My sister called me and I spent 30mins on the phone to her, not knowing that I was...
[September 3, 2006, 3:32]
FBI Unplugs Candidate Copycat Site
News Knell said he wasn't trying to rip anyone off. A Federal Election Commission official said the scheme would fall under federal election campaign laws only if the MediaKing operators were in some way affiliated with another campaign or if it were...
[February 21, 2000, 9:34]
Outrage From LineOne Customers Over Scrapped Service
News All I've got to say is what a rip off. As someone who's been using the Net for about four years now, the feeling of liberation I got from surfing without worrying about my phone bill was immense. The unmetered service launched by LineOne at the end...
[July 18, 2000, 7:01]
Kazaa Founders Tout P2P VoIP
News We hope people will start saying, "I'll Skype you" instead of "I'll call you," which means "I'll call you without paying any rip-off per-minute charges and with superior better-than-phone quality. The telephony market is characterised both by what...
[September 12, 2003, 10:30]
Atom(ic) Power, No Its Not 50's/60's Retro !
Blog We're talking Rip Van Winkle hibernation mode here. And that when I shut it, it turns "off" without requiring the hibernation idiocy of Windows XP or pushing the Start button to Shut it down. I got to look at a new processor today (in fact, just a...
[June 4, 2008, 5:44]
Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary
News The package appears to be a photographic rip-off of the original and the disc inside makes no concessions to aesthetics, being a blank, unpainted CD with the words Tomb Raider stamped on one side. Oh, and I saw some neat stuff in New Zealand, too...
[March 8, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Go and rip the back off your Aunt Glenda's telly instead. Speaking as a nerd who does have high voltage experience -- I was building 20kV supplies out of old tellies when I was fourteen, and I have no idea how I survived -- it's a joy in itself to...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
