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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 And the RIP bandwagon is an ideal one to jump on. It has always insisted that the clause in RIP forcing defendants to prove they had innocently lost keys rather than maliciously destroyed them did not reverse the burden of proof.
[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]
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]
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. She couldn't though because she lives in spain. She also gets ignored by her mates on there as they...
[August 10, 2006, 16:49]
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. One of the biggest problems with Dixon group stores such as curry's is that they make very little money on the PC sales on average...
[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. Apart from anything else, you must realise that Orange might have ripped you off (in fact they certainly have!
[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? Their only expense was sending an engineer out for 30 minutes--a guy who made it clear he was also mightily teed off...
[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. Joe consumer is being ripped off every time he walks into a retail music...
[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). Not that any of the networks are any better, but it just so happens that Orange are the company that ripped me off on my holiday and the subject of my anger.
[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. Another ZDNet reader thinks the ISP has ripped off consumers. LineOne's decision to scrap its unmetered service has led to outrage from customers who feel let down by the ISP.
[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]
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. Robin shot off to Hong Kong as a consultant to...
[March 8, 1997, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Go and rip the back off your Aunt Glenda's telly instead. A computer monitor generates roughly that many volts, and all you have to do is take the back off, stick a lead under the big rubber sucker that's there to stop people sticking leads into...
[May 31, 2002, 11:19]
London Council Ditches Linux Plans
Talkback Lets look at a few facts as separate from the fiction you just let rip shall we? Anyone who has the slightest modicum of common sense knows that you don't start off on IT projects by choosing the Operating System.
[January 8, 2004, 22:04]
