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The mortal struggle between two young companies for control of a revolutionary technology
Brett Kingstone could have been the entrepreneur to save a potential $30-billion industry from Asian domination. Instead, his high-flying start-up has been shut down -- the victim, he claims, of a conspiracy among a Colorado judge, a ruthless competitor, and a Japanese conglomerate. What's really happening? -- E.O.W.
On March 22 of this year Brett Kingstone testified on Capitol Hill before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Seated at the witness table next to the chairman of Zenith Electronics Corp., Kingstone proceeded to lay out the promise -- and the challenge -- of high-definition television (HDTV). "I do not believe it's a foregone conclusion that the United States has lost the war in HDTV development before the first battle has been fought," Kingstone said. "In our small company our goal is to take on the world's TV giants in the hopes of providing an American innovation that will leap over the existing technologies."
Kingstone unveiled a three-by-four-foot fiber-optic display screen. Made by his 10-month-old company, FiberView Corp., in Boulder, Colo., it dazzled the committee. He announced that he was ready to commercially produce six-by-eight-foot screens, surpassing in quality whatever the industry leaders, Sony and Mitsubishi, currently offered.
The committee room was packed that day. In the audience were representatives from AT&T Bell Laboratories, from the Commerce Department, and from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's R&D arm. Here was Kingstone with a forum at the highest levels of government, commanding attention in the sort of setting where issues of profound economic consequence often take shape. Kingstone's session was no different from those that determined import quotas or the fate of the B-2 bomber or funding for superconductivity research. The legislators sat enrapt, presented with the energy and conviction of an entrepreneur who believed he could change the world. Brett Kingstone was all of 29 years old.
Startling as it seemed, Kingstone's presence on Capitol Hill that day was perhaps not a total surprise. By the time he had graduated from Stanford, he had already written a best-selling book on entrepreneurship and cofounded a company that made fiber-optics display signs, grossing $500,000 a year. Now, with FiberView less than a year old, the company had been chosen by Microelectronics & Computer Technology Corp. to join an eight-company consortium bidding for DARPA contracts in high-definition systems. The group included such blue-chip stalwarts as Harris, National Semiconductor, LTV Missiles & Electronics Group, and Eastman Kodak.
Kingstone's message was visionary. Fiber-optic screens would eventually replace every cathode-ray tube in use -- every computer screen on every desktop, every TV in every home. Signs, billboards, and scoreboards would one day soon be made of fiber optics, too. This was an industry America couldn't afford to lose. Yet that peril was all too real, epitomized by the VCR, the technology that America invented -- and then abandoned to Asian manufacturers. What would prevent HDTV from suffering the same fate? The answer, thought the listeners in Washington that day, lay with the likes of Brett Kingstone. With entrepreneurs such as Kingstone in the vanguard, maybe we had a chance.
Five days later, on March 27, Kingstone was back in Boulder. At 9:00 a.m. officers of the U.S. marshal burst into his offices and flashed badges. Anyone getting in the way risked arrest. The officers, bearing a seizure-and-impoundment order signed by a federal judge in Denver, proceeded to rifle through FiberView's files. Documents went out of the building by the cartload and into a large truck. Parts and machine tools followed. When Ed Payne, FiberView's vice-president of sales and marketing, protested that FiberView was entitled to have a lawyer present, the reply came that he had 10 minutes to get one. "A lot of good that did us," Payne recalls. "Our law firm is in San Francisco." Payne grabbed the telephone book and started calling local lawyers.
Behind the bust was Advance Display Technologies Inc. (ADTI), a competitor in nearby Golden. Claiming misappropriation of its trade secrets by FiberView, ADTI had persuaded a federal judge to issue an order without first allowing FiberView to respond to the complaint. In civil cases this type of order, a so-called ex parte temporary restraining order including seizure of assets, is almost unheard of.
Kingstone was incredulous. He had duly licensed two patents from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) and based his processes on them. The patents' assignee -- the inventor -- was a William E. Glenn, director of research at NYIT's telecommunications lab. Glenn, holder of more than 100 patents, was an éminence grise in HDTV. What really galled Kingstone was that ADTI appeared to be everything that FiberView was not. It represented the sort of industrial complacency he had been warning against in Washington less than a week before.
ADTI had been in business for five years. It had spent close to $10 million and struggled mightily just to produce a prototype of a fiber-optics display screen. FiberView had spent $400,000; it had simply relied on a U.S. scientist's patents and the hard work of its 12 employees. ADTI was backed by a Japanese behemoth, Mitsubishi Rayon Co., which had poured some $5 million into the company and in return received access to its fiber-optic technology.
Within a few hours, FiberView, a pioneering company in a potentially crucial industry, had been shut down by an aggressive competitor and a judge's decree. Recalls Ed Payne of the bust that Monday morning in March, "I hate to use the term, because it's so violent, but this was rape. It really was." That was FiberView's story.
Shocking as it was, the bust merely reflected a prevailing reality. Promising technologies attract predators. The payoffs are too huge for the rules of fair play always to apply. The chain of events that led to this nightmare for Brett Kingstone began six years earlier in deceptively innocent fashion, when a man named Steven R. Sedlmayr took his niece to the Ice Capades in Denver. There he bought her a small wand that glowed in the dark.
In 1977 Sedlmayr had founded a company that maintained display screens for sporting arenas. Advertisers began asking if their images could be displayed at lower cost and higher resolution. Sedlmayr studied various technologies. It was the wand, though, made of random rows of light-transmitting fibers, that really got him thinking. What if he could order those random fibers, make them "behave," as he put it? The result would be, he believed, a fiber-optic screen that could display a bright, undistorted, or coherent image.
Sedlmayr's quest led to the U.S. Patent Office, where he turned up two interesting-looking patents -- assigned to a William E. Glenn. Sedlmayr visited Glenn at his lab in Dania, Fla., in the fall of 1983, and the two men discussed the inventor's patents. Glenn says of Sedlmayr's visit, "I showed him the screens and described a way to make them. He said he was interested in licensing and would get back to me. That was the last I heard from him."
In September 1983 Sedlmayr sold his company. With money from the sale, he started Advance Display Technologies. His search, like that of others before him, was for a way to mass-produce fiber-optic display screens. No one, as yet, had done it. People had built screens by hand, but the task was unbelievably labor intensive. The only way these screens could ever become commercially viable, the only way this technology might one day make HDTV feasible, was if someone could automate the assembly process.
On March 5, 1986, ADTI raised $4.5 million in an initial public offering. This followed $1 million of capital the company had already raised privately. That money was soon consumed by Sedlmayr's many experiments, causing unease among his backers. Jeff Robinson, a major investor in ADTI, describes Steve Sedlmayr as "bizarre" and "a little goofy." He adds, "He's not a businessman."
At 16 Sedlmayr had won a National Science Foundation grant for arctic and alpine research and related solar studies. Sedlmayr went on to the Colorado School of Mines, where Fs and incompletes littered his transcript. "Knowledge was more important to me than grades," he says. By the age of 22 he was working on theoretical math and space-flight mechanics problems for Martin Marietta Corp.
Steve Sedlmayr is a nocturnal creature, given to turning up at the office late at night and working until dawn. He also has a weakness for electronic tools and gadgets. One former employee recalls him leaving the office late one day and returning a couple of hours later with $15,000 worth of personal-computer equipment. ADTI spent $1 million developing a laser as a light source for its screens. Its shop sported such exotica as a $50,000 diamond-bladed saw.
Ironically, one such binge proved fortunate. In late 1985 ADTI placed an order for plastic fiber with Mitsubishi Rayon. The order, six times larger than any other the company had received, aroused Mitsubishi's curiosity. It asked ADTI what it needed all that fiber for. Sedlmayr replied that that was ADTI's business. Mitsubishi persisted, eager for a glimpse of the young company's inner workings. Sedlmayr finally relented, charging Mitsubishi $500,000 just for the right to negotiate with ADTI. Mitsubishi paid.
That pricey overture led to a licensing agreement signed on December 31, 1986. ADTI received $5 million from Mitsubishi. Mitsubishi, it appeared, gained access to a valuable American technology of the twenty-first century. The price seemed a steal.
But even Mitsubishi's largess couldn't keep Steve Sedlmayr in lasers and diamond-bladed saws. By mid-1987 ADTI was laying people off and scratching around for cash. ADTI's Denver underwriter, R. B. Marich Inc., knew of a young entrepreneur who had experience in fiber optics. Kingstone says, "They came to me and said, 'Brett, why don't you take a look at this company as a possible turnaround?' "
When Kingstone arrived at ADTI on a December day in 1987, his impressions of a top-heavy company were affirmed. ADTI, with its marbled lobby and overstuffed boardroom, struck him as a free-spending outfit. The product it was working on, though, tempered his response. "They did seem to have an interesting technology," Kingstone muses.
Sedlmayr claims Kingstone reacted differently. "He flipped out over the technology. He said, 'Congratulations. You've done it. You've got it.' " Kingstone, like Sedlmayr, had built screens by hand when he was at Stanford. But what Sedlmayr had was a fiber-optic display screen built by machine -- not by hand.
Kingstone offered his services in various forms to Sedlmayr. He offered to sell him his contact list for $10,000. He offered to consult for the company -- at $10,000 a month. (At that rate he would have been making more than Sedlmayr.) He offered to sell screens for ADTI on commission, but appropriate terms could not be reached. Kingstone then offered to help Sedlmayr raise more capital. Recalls Sedlmayr, "I had been meeting with a lot of people who said they could raise money for us. None of them came through. At the time he just looked like another guy. I didn't put a lot of credence in what he said."
Brett Kingstone grew up in Long Beach, on Long Island, N.Y., where his father owned a mattress company. To educate his son, Kingstone's father sent him out on deliveries through the roughest neighborhoods. His mother hated that. "She wanted to read Hans Christian Andersen to me," Kingstone remembers. "My father said, 'Fairy tales? I want him to learn about the real world.' My mother wanted me to have culture." On weekends she took her son to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the week the boy was back on the mattress truck, heading through Bedford Stuyvesant, Harlem, and the South Bronx.
Kingstone's parents ultimately divorced. That devastated his father, which led, Kingstone believes, to his premature death when Kingstone was only 17. "I think he had a premonition that he was going to die early. So he raised me as tough as he could. 'Brett, I'm preparing you for life. I'm preparing you to be self-sufficient.' "
The search for a surrogate father began at Stanford, where Kingstone sought out Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, who wrote a glowing blurb for the dust jacket of Kingstone's book. Also at Stanford, Kingstone met Philip Rollhaus, the chairman of Quixote Corp., a Chicago-based miniconglomerate, who told the fledgling entrepreneur that maybe one day they could do business together.
Kingstone remembered Rollhaus's offer, and in December 1987 he contacted him. The subject was ADTI. "The company's technology is excellent, the management is not," he wrote to Quixote, specifically pointing out the "unjustifiable salaries" of the company's managers -- a curious comment given his compensation demand of Sedlmayr. Perhaps, though, this could be a worthy speculative investment for Quixote. In early 1988 Quixote hired Kingstone, at $6,000 per month, to look deeper into ADTI.
Kingstone's research turned up a patent belonging to Steve Sedlmayr. The patent cited other patents as so-called prior art. Two of those belonged to William E. Glenn. The file on Sedlmayr's patent revealed that the patent office initially contended that Sedlmayr's invention was an insufficient advance over Glenn's.
In February Kingstone and Jim DeVries, a vice-president at Quixote, went to Florida to visit Glenn and learn more about his work. Glenn was surprised to learn that Sedlmayr had gone into business. Kingstone grew suspicious. He recalls being told, " 'Brett, people don't usually lie to you just once. There's a pattern of repeated behavior.' "
In late March Quixote declined to invest in ADTI. "My conclusion at the time was that the light source was not bright enough," says DeVries. On March 30, 1988, Quixote terminated its formal relationship with Kingstone. Kingstone responded, according to his notes of a phone call, "I will continue to pursue this project on my own."
In March, back in Colorado, Kingstone invited Sedlmayr out to a nearby café. Over iced tea, Sedlmayr claims, Kingstone told him Quixote was prepared to put $5 million into the company except that it had serious problems with the management. Kingstone proposed they get rid of ADTI's "deadwood"; the two of them would in effect start a new company. Sedlmayr protested that he had a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders and a moral obligation to employees. Recalls Sedlmayr, "He then said, 'I wish you the best of luck, but I don't think you're going to make it.' " He assumed that was the last he would see of Brett Kingstone.
Some two weeks earlier, on March 18, Kingstone had secretly sent a sketch to William Webb, Quixote's lawyer in Chicago. Entitled ADT Method of Making Fiber Screen, the sketch had been made by Kingstone following a visit to ADTI, where he had signed a visitor's pass agreeing not to disclose to outsiders any ADTI trade secrets. Kingstone asked if the process might infringe on Glenn's patents. On April 11 Webb wrote back that it did.
Kingstone returned to Florida in April. Glenn was happy to see an entrepreneur so willing to breathe life back into his ideas. In Glenn, Kingstone found a man "who treated me like a son." Kingstone believed Glenn, like his father, had been shortchanged by life. "He was unhappy that ADTI had raped his technology."
Glenn's two patents relating to the making of fiber-optic screens had lain dormant for almost a decade. Now, Kingstone sought to license them. The patents, however, were not owned by Glenn but by his employer, the New York Institute of Technology. NYIT, in Old Westbury, on Long Island, relies on licensing income from discoveries made by its faculty.
In early May, NYIT chancellor Alexander Schure received a signed letter of intent from Glenn seeking an exclusive licensing of his patents to FiberView, a company Kingstone was in the process of forming. In addition, Glenn wrote enthusiastically of Kingstone's abilities. Schure thought this odd. "Usually our patent counsel has a lot of input [on license negotiations]," he recalls. "In this case, all of that was done by Dr. Glenn." Stranger still, Schure continues, "Dr. Glenn tends to be low key; he's a taciturn man. But this was an unusually enthusiastic portrayal of Kingstone."
But Glenn's endorsement carried weight at NYIT, his employer since 1975. The institute had set him up with his own lab in Florida. He earned a salary substantially more than $100,000, in addition to a healthy cut of the royalties his patents generated. The license agreement stipulated an initial $15,000 payment to FiberView. That was paltry. But this was a huge technology; the payoff lay down the road, Glenn and Kingstone persuaded Schure. The agreement was signed, effective the first week of May. Schure himself would later invest $50,000 in FiberView, assigning the shares to NYIT. "I thought," recalls Schure, "here was a wonderful chance to exploit this technology -- for Glenn, for the institute. Maybe it could be a big bonanza."
By May 1988 morale at ADTI had hit bottom. Those not already laid off were not drawing salaries. Brett Kingstone, meanwhile, was forming FiberView -- and contacting ADTI employees. One of them was Douglas Gordon, ADTI's director of international affairs.
In early May Gordon approached two ADTI engineers and a technician and asked them if they wanted to work for FiberView. They declined. Gordon also announced to management that he believed an industrial spy had recently visited the company. He volunteered to review all visitor passes to ferret out the spy. A number of employees recall the odd sight of Gordon, a high-level employee, doggedly moving through the building inquiring if all passes had been recovered.
"He seemed pretty intent on getting to these," says Rebecca McCall, ADTI's vice-president of administration. "This was not an off-the-wall request. It was very deliberate. He kept asking me where any other passes might be filed."
Brett Kingstone had visited ADTI about half a dozen times. Each time he had signed a visitor pass agreeing not to disclose or misappropriate any confidential information developed by ADTI. After Doug Gordon left ADTI, a stack of visitors' passes was found in his office bookcase. A subsequent search revealed that all of those signed by Kingstone were gone.
All, that is, except one that had been missed.
Brett Kingstone incorporated FiberView for the purpose of making fiber-optic display screens on May 25, 1988. His business plan listed Douglas Gordon among the founding management. But Gordon was still on the payroll at ADTI, whose employ he would not leave until June 15.
Four other employees came over from ADTI. All had signed confidentiality agreements with ADTI. The group included Michael O'Rourke, who would serve as FiberView's vice-president of marketing; Michael Cuypers, a mechanical engineer; Robert Vela, a draftsman; and Al Pelehowski, a machinist.
During 1988 Brett Kingstone raised $1.3 million to capitalize FiberView. Kingstone, as a cofounder of FiberView, took three quarters of the company's stock in exchange for what he saw as one and a half years' service to a brand-new company. Jeff Robinson, a major investor in ADTI who would later have cause to look into FiberView, was stunned that Kingstone could get so much for so little. "It was awesome. That's the strongest raise I've ever seen -- and on just a license. That might happen in Silicon Valley with a guy who had done four or five deals before. You have to remember, Kingstone did not put a nickel in. He spent other people's money."
If his investors had been more prudent, they might have asked Brett Kingstone, 28 at the time, why he advertised himself as a man with some 10 years' experience in fiber optics. Actually, for the previous 5 years, Kingstone had been a stockbroker. In fact, the National Association of Securities Dealers had filed a complaint against him alleging the improper sale of restricted securities. He was fined $4,000. He did not pay it. The NASD then revoked his registration.
Kingstone's investors might also have asked why, with such a research-intensive technology, he planned to hire only one "R&D machinist" at an annual salary of $12,000, why he had only one electrical engineer on staff, why he had allotted only four to six weeks for design and six weeks to fabricate fiber-optic screens. These would have been appropriate questions. The American Electronics Association, after all, had told Congress it believed that a national R&D investment of $600 million over the next three years was required if the United States were to prevail against Japan and Europe in the race to commercially produce HDTV.
Instead, perhaps the focus was on Kingstone's ardent insistence that ADTI was infringing on the Glenn patents -- rightfully licensed by FiberView. Kingstone recently said in an interview, "The only reason we didn't sue ADTI was that they were close to Chapter 7. There was nothing to get out of them. Everything about these two companies shows you what's right and what's wrong with American industry. We decided not to sue. We decided to invest in the business and in the product. They decided to sue us."
In fact, during the fall of 1988 Kingstone asked NYIT to sue ADTI "many times," Schure claims. His appeals concluded with an all-day visit to Schure's home on December 4, during which he importuned Schure to sue. Schure said no.
Kingstone also contacted Mitsubishi, warning it was infringing on the Glenn patents. But instead of suing, he then sought to do business with Mitsubishi and supplant ADTI as the licenser of the technology. His business plan notes: "We have made Mr. Nogami [of Mitsubishi] aware of the fact that both ADTI and Mitsubishi are currently infringing on patents that we control. . . . Mr. Nogami flew to Colorado to indicate his interest in discussing the possibilities of sublicensing this technology from FiberView and/or obtaining an investment position in the company."
By September 1988 ADTI's officers hadn't paid themselves a salary for 11 months. The company seemed headed for bankruptcy. FiberView's existence seemed equally tenuous -- but in a different sense. Its reason for being rested on one issue: ADTI's infringement of the Glenn patents. Thus, any of ADTI's purported "trade secrets" would actually belong to FiberView.
Was there infringement?
Glenn held two patents. One described the device; the other described the method of making it.
The devices clearly varied. Sedlmayr's screen had a long, flexible tail of fibers protruding out the back. The tail on the Glenn screen was stubby and inflexible.
The different configurations, in turn, dictated different methods of assembly. Glenn's concept was to build a single solid screen. Sedlmayr's intent was to build modules -- pieces of screen measuring six by six inches -- and then assemble them mosaic-like into the larger screen. In addition, while both Sedlmayr and Glenn intended a process of "wrapping and winding" fibers to build their devices, Sedlmayr had developed a unique apparatus to wrap and wind that was never mentioned in Glenn's or any other patent.
In starting ADTI, Sedlmayr had consulted with his patent attorney, Ancel W. Lewis Jr., about the Glenn patents -- to ensure that he would avoid conflict with Glenn.Lewis, a former U.S. patent examiner, emphasizes this is part and parcel of the process. "When you present your patent it must clearly be beyond the prior art." If Sedlmayr's concept was not a clear advancement of what Glenn had in mind, Lewis argues, he never would have received his patent in the first place.
Glenn, meanwhile, had worked off and on for almost 10 years trying to make a fiber-optic screen. In that time how many had he made? Two -- by hand. Glenn had even told Steven Sedlmayr he had gone to around 10 major U.S. corporations trying to interest them in his method. They all told him that under his patents the screen was "not manufacturable."
Mitsubishi, a research leader in plastic fiber optics, had spent seven years and untold millions trying -- unsuccessfully -- to mass-produce a screen. "Before we bought the technology from ADTI, our R&D people reviewed all technologies worldwide," says Yuichiro Nogami, until recently Mitsubishi Rayon's representative in the United States. "We reviewed the Glenn technology. They make a screen, but it's not practical. That's the key point. Everybody can make a screen. The important thing is that ADTI's is very unique. It's mass-producible."
Why would Mitsubishi spend $5 million for a technology if it felt it belonged to someone else? Even Quixote's attorney, William Webb, when asked in a deposition if he considered the sketch of ADTI's method sent him by Kingstone a possible trade secret, replied yes. He had asked Kingstone about it. Kingstone had replied it was not a trade secret. This denial apparently satisfied him.
The issue, as far as they were concerned, was not patent infringement.
The path of technological development rarely describes a straight line. Dead ends and blunders interplay with hard work and dumb luck, leading sometimes to fitful, expensive progress. By the time Brett Kingstone met him, Steve Sedlmayr had spent $10 million and four years trying to construct fiber-optic screens by machine. The breakthrough process -- which was not even imagined by Sedlmayr when he set out -- was the third that the company had tried.
ADTI established elaborate security procedures within its facility, believing it had something to protect. What did it have? It had common tools of the trade: spacers, clamps, glues. These seemed to fall into the public domain. But ADTI had done much of its own tooling, altering, and customizing of these parts as the technical task intensified. In time, the company produced proprietary variations on common themes. More to the point, it was these parts and processes, used in concert, that produced a unique result -- and moved Mitsubishi to fork over $5 million.
The fruit of ADTI's labor was embodied in the six-by-six-inch modules that make up its larger screen. One such module found its way through ADTI security and into the trunk of Doug Gordon's car. From there it went to presentations given by Kingstone to potential investors. One such investor was Panasonic. Its representatives met with Kingstone in early August 1988. Here was Kingstone, who would later assert that ADTI had sold out a valuable technology to the Japanese, trying to sell that same technology to the Japanese. Here was Kingstone, holding up the Glenn patents as the basis for the module's existence, while Glenn's patents called for an altogether different device.
The Panasonic presentation was too much for FiberView's marketing vice-president, Michael O'Rourke. He was upset. He had followed Kingstone over from ADTI because three days before he got married he had learned that ADTI, short of funds, was going to lay him off. He'd worked for two months without pay. Moreover, Brett Kingstone appealed to him. "This guy's a doer," says O'Rourke. "Brett's ambitious; I wanted to work for a guy like that."
But O'Rourke began having second thoughts. In December he left FiberView, and the following month he sent a copy of FiberView's business plan in a plain brown envelope to ADTI. The plan detailed Kingstone's efforts to do business with Mitsubishi or other receptive parties. It read: "If we are not able to reach an amicable agreement with Mitsubishi, we intend to approach their competition, namely Asahi and Toray, who have already indicated a strong interest in bidding for the technology."
Rumors had been swirling all summer that Kingstone had formed a company. But this exceeded ADTI's worst fear. Kingstone, it appeared, had disclosed ADTI's trade secrets to major competitors of Mitsubishi -- companies not bound by a license agreement. ADTI knew it had to go after Kingstone. But would it ever get the chance? By fall the company was all but broke.
Desperate, ADTI negotiated an accelerated royalty payment of $350,000 from Mitsubishi and got $1 million in working capital from a large investor. Still, Sedlmayr resisted suing. "I decided that if I was going to sign off on the lawsuit I had to go see for myself." Late one night in January 1989 Sedlmayr drove to Boulder and shone a flashlight through a window in FiberView's building. "My jaw dropped. I could have been looking at the back of our shop." Sedlmayr saw a host of parts and assemblies he instantly recognized. He had to restrain himself from breaking into the building. He then climbed into a nearby dumpster, where he found drawings of ADTI parts and a payroll listing ex-ADTI employees.
Sedlmayr collected four bags of garbage and drove back to ADTI. He stayed up all night sorting through it on his office floor. His first move after daybreak was to call his lawyer. "My adrenaline was running at that point. I was really mad. I couldn't believe that anyone would be so stupid as to copy exactly what we do."
The weight of such evidence brought the unusual seizure and impoundment of March 27 down on FiberView. On April 19 a four-day hearing -- which amounted to a trial -- began. The U.S. marshal found what the garbage had only hinted at. The search produced a complete assembly line for making fiber-optic screens. It turned up engineering drawings made by FiberView that contained parts remarkably similar to ADTI's parts. It turned up an ADTI title block excised from ADTI drawings. FiberView's master list of drawings also was strikingly similar to ADTI's. Steve Sedlmayr had chosen an unorthodox numbering system for his drawings -- five digits based on the date the drawing was done. FiberView did likewise.
There was more: sketches of ADTI parts and a list, which could be traced to Sedlmayr's computer, that broke down costs associated with manufacturing screens. And the search yielded a file of correspondence with Japanese multinational Olympus Optical Co. as well as letters to potential investors claiming that Olympus was interested in negotiating a license and making an equity investment in FiberView.
The judge in the case, Lewis T. Babcock of the U.S. District Court in Colorado, issued a temporary order enjoining FiberView from using any of ADTI's trade secrets. The order essentially put FiberView out of business. In concluding that FiberView had used the Glenn patents as a cover to steal trade secrets, Babcock wrote: "I find Mr. Kingstone to be 100% incredible. I don't believe a thing he says." He then added, "I find as a matter of fact, Mr. Kingstone set out to and did, in fact, misappropriate ADTI's entire process. . . . [FiberView] literally picked up the process, lock, stock, and barrel, and took it from ADTI's shop and put it in FiberView's shop."
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The star power that afternoon belonged to Red Sox outfielder Tris Speaker and a Cleveland Naps lineup led by "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoie.
Ray Chapman, the Cleveland shortstop, batting sixth, was killed six years later when he was struck by a Carl Mays fastball at New York's Polo Grounds.
The baptism of George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Boston's rookie lefty, was efficient but ordinary. He scattered eight hits in Boston's 4-3 triumph, helped at the end by two shutout innings from Dutch Leonard.
Cleveland left fielder Jack Graney, the first batter Ruth ever faced, singled. Ruth, in his first major league at-bat, struck out. He was later pinch-hit for (imagine that) by Duffy Lewis, a career .284 hitter.
Nothing on that day hinted at immortality, or the notion that a century later we'd still be talking about Ruth as perhaps the most iconic figure in sports history.
Twenty-one years after his debut, on May 30, 1935, a worn-out Ruth, wearing the alien clothes of the Boston Braves, struck out in his final plate appearance at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl.
Between those monumental bookend whiffs he whipped up quite a dust storm.
Why are we still so fascinated?
"Because he was a fascinating person," Julia Ruth Stevens, Ruth's 98-year-old daughter, said in a phone interview from her summer home in New Hampshire. "He loved people, especially kids, he'd do anything for them. And he played to his audience. He was always trying to hit home runs because that's what they wanted him to do."
Cy Young won 511 games, but no one thought to stop the presses on Aug. 6, 1990, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his first game.
Ruth is still venerated because he combined extraordinary ability with panache and personality, in the epicenter of New York City, at the apex of the Roaring Twenties.
He invented, through his success and excess, a new term in the American vernacular: "Ruthian."
Willie Sutton would become "The Babe Ruth of bank robbers."
As Ruth said of himself, "I swing big with everything I got. I hit big or I miss big."
When Ruth succumbed to cancer Aug. 16, 1948, legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice wrote, "The greatest figure the world of sport has ever known has passed from the field. Game called on account of darkness. Babe Ruth is dead."
He died only in the flesh. His legend lived through the portals of truth, lies, myth, hyperbole, books, newsreel clips and two lousy movies (See, or don't see: William Bendix in "The Babe Ruth Story" and John Goodman in "The Babe.")
Ruth's daughter laments that nobody has gotten it right.
"Comical, not real," Ruth Stevens said of the portrayals of Ruth. "The things they had John Goodman doing, it was stupid, silly. They never got anybody who was really good."
Where is the Ruthian film equivalent to "The Pride of the Yankees," the 1942 film about Babe's teammate, Lou Gehrig?
"For Lou Gehrig, they had Gary Cooper," she said. "How much better could you do than Gary Cooper to play Lou Gehrig?"
The pursuit of Ruth has been a slippery, elusive chase of half-truths and distortions.
There is the famous story of Ruth delivering, in 1926, on a World Series promise to hit a home run for a hospital-ridden boy, Johnny Sylvester.
While the details were sometimes comically embellished, Ruth did deliver that home run on Oct. 6. In fact, Ruth hit three.
Ruth's daughter Julia adds an emotional and telling addendum to the story.
"When Daddy was so ill with cancer, John Sylvester came to see him," Ruth Stevens said. "He said, 'I wish I could do for you what you did for me.'"
Ruth's legacy endures even though most of his records have been eclipsed. Roger Maris broke his single-season home run record with 61 in 1961, and Henry Aaron and Barry Bonds surpassed Ruth's once-thought-to-be-unassailable career home run mark of 714.
His all-time best slugging percentage of .690 is hugely impressive but mostly resonates with statistical geeks who troll Nate Silver.
Ruth endures because, as a package, on and off the field, no one approaches his staying-power swath.
He was not just a great pitcher, or just a great hitter: Ruth was both. No one in major league history has approached his dual mastery.
Ruth led the American League in earned-run average in 1916 (1.75) and, in 1924, led the AL in batting (.378).
"Who in the world has ever done that?" asked Tom Stevens, Ruth's grandson.
In his 20-win seasons of 1916 and 1917, Ruth was a better pitcher than Hall of Famer Walter Johnson. Ruth defeated Johnson six times in eight meetings, three times by 1-0 scores.
Had Ruth stayed on the mound, he likely would have been a Hall of Fame pitcher. In 163 games, mostly amassed in his first six seasons in Boston, Ruth had a 94-46 record (including a combined 47-25 in 1916 and '17) and a career ERA of 2.28. He had 107 complete games.
His nine shutouts in 1916 stood as the AL record for lefties until the Yankees' Ron Guidry matched it in 1978.
Ruth once pitched 29 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play.
Had he just been a position player, Ruth's already incredible numbers would have been more extraordinary.
Consider: Ruth did not become an everyday player in Boston until his fourth full season. The beast was unleashed May 6, 1918, at the Polo Grounds, against the Yankees. Ruth batted sixth and went two for four, with a home run.
In 1919, his last year with Boston, Ruth batted .322 and led the AL with 103 runs, 29 home runs and 113 runs batted in. He also went 9-5 on the mound with a 2.97 ERA.
In 15 years with the Yankees, 1920-34, Ruth led the AL in home runs 10 times and in runs seven times.
Ruth hit 54 home runs in 1920, more than the total of 14 of the 15 other major league teams. His 1921 season — a .378 average, 59 home runs, 168 RBIs, 177 runs — is considered by many the greatest in baseball history.
Ruth endures because his exploits commanded boldfaced headlines in a frenetic city with 15 daily newspapers.
The intestinal ailment that plagued Ruth in 1925 — some speculated it was from eating too many hot dogs — became "The Bellyache Heard Round the World."
Ruth's response to making more money than President Herbert Hoover: "I had a better year."
Ruth became such a part of our lexicon that Japanese soldiers, during World War II, would scream "To hell with Babe Ruth!" at American troops.
Ruth was foul-mouthed and a legendary carouser, drinker and womanizer. He had a hair-trigger temper. In 1917, upset over a call while pitching for Boston, Ruth walked off the mound and punched home plate umpire Brick Owens in the head.
But Ruth also had a gentle, tender side. His daughter remembers watching her father sign autographs for hours after games.
"Finally my mother [Claire] would come over and say, 'Babe, we have company coming over for dinner, we have to go,'" Ruth Stevens recalled. "And he'd say to the kids, 'Come back tomorrow.'"
ESPN, perhaps suffering from modern media myopia, named basketball legend Michael Jordan as the top athlete of the 20th Century. Ruth was second.
"Will we still be talking about Jordan in 100 years?" said Ed Sherman, former Chicago Tribune sports writer and author of "Babe Ruth's Called Shot." "Maybe, but I doubt it."
Ruth's aura was such that books have been written about things he might not have even done.
Dan Shaughnessy's "The Curse of the Bambino" set out to prove Boston's infamous 1919 sale of Ruth to the Yankees literally jinxed the Red Sox franchise. The author noted the rearranged letters of Red Sox pitcher Bruce Hurst spelled out B. Ruth Curse.
Sherman, in his book, provided 240 entertaining pages of pure conjecture. He combed through forensic and anecdotal evidence from Game 3 of the 1932 World Series to determine whether Ruth called his home run shot off Chicago Cubs pitcher Charlie Root.
We know the score was tied 4-4 and the count was 2-2. We know Ruth had been in a verbal war with the Cubs' bench during the entire series.
Ruth made hand gestures after the first two strikes, seeming to indicate it took only one pitch to hit. We know the pitch Ruth hit was a "Ruthian" rocket, to right-center, and that he taunted the Cubs as he ran around the bases.
"It was the most unique at-bat in baseball history," Sherman said.
The home run turned the series on a pivot toward the Yankees, but did Ruth really call his shot?
Root went to his grave swearing the whole thing was fantasy. Had Ruth been pointing, Root said, he would have knocked Babe on his rump.
The truth: it didn't matter.
"You can argue about whether he called his shot," Sherman said. "But he was definitely being taunted and was being challenged. And how did he respond? He delivered."
Ruth basically "winked" about the home run and let the sportswriters run with the story.
Everything Ruth did was circus-like and over the Big Top. He carried the biggest bat, 40 ounces, in the biggest town.
Teams loaded extra defenders on the right side of the infield in a feeble attempt to foil the prodigious pull hitter. Ruth, who batted .342 for his career, said it could have been .600 if he only wanted to slap singles through the open left side.
That, he said, was not what people paid to see.
Ruth endures because enough truth exists between the lies.
Posterity's shame is that his real life was far more exciting than Hollywood's clown-show depictions.
Yankees teammate Waite Hoyt gave up telling Ruth stories "because nobody would believe" him.
Ruth still intrigues because, as big as he smiled, his life had a subtext of sadness born of poverty and abandonment. Ruth was not an orphan but was treated like one when his parents shipped young George to St. Mary's Industrial School For Boys.
Ruth was dismissed as incorrigible. At 6, he was already chewing tobacco and chugging beer while snooping around his father's Baltimore saloon.
Ruth's daughter said her dad's deprivation was the reason he had such an affinity for children. He related to castoffs and misfits.
"Yes," she said, "because he certainly didn't have much of a childhood."
Ruth was bitter to the end about never getting the chance to manage in the big leagues.
"It was the biggest disappointment of his life," Ruth Stevens said.
Babe's reputation contaminated him. A front office man for the Yankees famously said of Ruth, "How can he manage other men when he can't manage himself?"
It didn't matter that Ruth had settled down some in 1929 after marrying his second wife, Claire, Julia Ruth Stevens' mother.
"My mother was a very strong influence on him," Ruth Stevens said. "I think she polished him up a bit. Col. [Jacob] Ruppert [the Yankees' owner] asked her to go on the road with him to keep him on the straight and narrow."
Ruth Stevens said her father played golf almost daily after he retired to keep from sinking into deep depression.
"He'd come home and ask Mother, 'Did anyone call?' meaning anyone interested in him becoming a manager," she recalled.
No one called.
Ruth Stevens speculates baseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis blackballed her father because the commissioner was a bigot who feared Ruth might integrate the major leagues with black players.
"And he would have," Ruth Stevens said. "He used to play exhibitions with Satchel Paige; he knew lots of Negro players."
Ruth Stevens can't reclaim history but she can close her eyes and play back the magic moments. "I loved to see him take his cap off and wave to the crowd as he ran around the bases," she said.
She remembers not the history-reel shots of an aging, bloated Ruth, but a real man with human flaws and uncommon physical grace. Who might recall that Babe Ruth stole home 10 times?
"He was a beautiful dancer," she said. "He taught me how to dance. The Foxtrot."
Talking about that day in 1948 when Grantland Rice wrote, "Game called by darkness. Let the curtain fall . . . where is the crash of ash against the sphere?" still doesn't come easily to her.
One hundred years after his first game, more than six decades after he left us, Babe Ruth is surely not forgotten.
"I miss him even to this day," his daughter said. "I miss him so much. But his spirit seems to hover over the baseball field."


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There are bad ideas and really bad ideas, and the New York Mets considering using Zack Wheeler out of the bullpen falls into the latter category.
Wheeler has thrown a combined 114.1 minors-and-majors innings this season with a cutoff number at 180. With the intent of limiting his innings, manager Terry Collins and pitching coach Dan Warthen are mulling using Wheeler out of the bullpen.
This is a bad idea on so many levels, beginning with the up-and-down nature of a reliever. The Mets will say they will only use Wheeler at the start of an inning, but that's no guarantee. It is still a change in routine and they must scrap this idea immediately.
The Mets' goal of winning as many games as possible in the second half and limiting Wheeler and Matt Harvey aren't mutually compatible. The best way to achieve their goal of making a .500 run is to not change their pitching, which has been good.
Pitchers are creatures of habit and Wheeler hasn't pitched out of the bullpen since 2010. For the past three years, he's worked in the routine of a starter. Bouncing from starter to reliever in the middle of a season is never a good idea. The Mets should know that by now with Jenrry Mejia, who went from reliever to starter and ended up having Tommy John surgery.
A coincidence? Perhaps, but why take the chance? Considering how the Mets handled Wheeler with kid gloves, thrusting him into a new role is counter productive. It might be different if the Mets were in a pennant race, but they are not.
Figuring ten more starts they should simply cut Wheeler at six innings a game and do not deviate under any circumstances. That would give him 174.1 innings, just under the limit. This way, it keeps Wheeler in his normal routine and eliminate the different strain on his arm caused by working in relief. A starter has a set program, but a reliever does not.
San Francisco used Tim Lincecum out of the pen last year, but he's a veteran more capable of making the adjustment than Wheeler.
Currently, the Mets are operating with a six-man rotation, which could go back to five once Jonathan Niese comes off the disabled list. The Mets have not said they'll continue with six when Niese returns. Doing so might not be a bad idea because it would accomplish the dual purposes of monitoring Wheeler and Harvey, not to mention protecting Niese.
If the Mets go down to five, it would give Wheeler and Harvey additional turns. In that case, they should be skipped or pushed back a turn, which is preferable to shaving innings piecemeal..
The Mets haven't said whether they will have an innings limit on Wheeler and Harvey next season, but if they do, they should map out their plan from the beginning than doing so mid-stream.
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by Rockman » Sat Nov 16, 2013 11:58 amI worked in education, I've seen and heard of careers that were destroyed because of vindictive little craps who lied about a teacher which totally destroyed their career and reputation. Even when the students admitted that they had lied the damage was done. Frag is right that the accusations thrown out about this guy are not representative of a drunk dude at a bar.
by alaska1125 » Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:10 pm
Hmmm...what, $29.99? But that's retail. I'll send whatever percentage of the profits he gets. #themarvelbuisinessmodel
by alaska1125 » Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:11 pm
There's also a hotel room and a following day in the convention center to consider...
by meinterrupted » Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:52 pm
So, ten other groups, all the same size as mine--that is, 100 people--all choose to drop X-Men.
X-Men #6 sold ~71,990 copies (x).
Now, maybe my math is bad--I'm just a dumb girl, after all, everyone knows numbers are hard for us--but it seems to me that 71,890 copies of a comic is still enough to keep it in the top 20 comics monthly. Hardly enough for Marvel to look twice.
As for emails to Marvel, I figure probably less than a quarter of the people who drop it will tell Marvel why. So that's 25 emails; and I'm quite sure that those emails will be balanced out by the people like ReturnoftheMack, who will be urging Marvel not to ruin some guy's life, just because he got drunk and hit on some chick who overreacted. I mean, that could happen to any of us, right?
by Frag » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:24 pm
You aren't "just a dumb girl." You are a dumb person. Your gender doesn't make a difference.
You make easily disprovable arguments. You are purposely obtuse ("10 x 10 =100"). You sent letters to Marvel without getting all the facts of what happened. You take cheap shots at people. You misrepresent what people say.
It has nothing to do with being "just a dumb girl."
And personally, I don't like Brian Wood's work. And I'm not going to support his work without all the facts like you did. Let's all burn him at the stake first and ask questions later.
by Frag » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:31 pm
DMZ started in 2005 when this alleged incident happened. I'd like to know more of his timeline.
by HNutz » Sat Nov 16, 2013 1:37 pm
Maybe it'll be 10 groups of 10. Or 30 groups of 30. Or any other possible combination you can think of.
There's no evidence, one way or the other, that "10 other groups, all the size of mine". I doubt that's the limit of the boycott/bad press/loss of business. You don't know the affect this will have. I don't know either. But I do know that's pure guesswork on the "25 e-mails".
"I figure probably"... "I'm quite sure those e-mails will be balanced out"... yeah, those aren't the cold, hard facts you'd like them to be.
Oh, and bonus points for trying to work in sexist implications ("Now, maybe my math is bad--I'm just a dumb girl, after all, everyone knows numbers are hard for us", along with your "mansplain" comment before) when people disagree with you.
Doesn't using sexist terms like that in a discussion about someone's sexist behaviors come off a wee bit hypocritical?
by McKegan » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:50 pmIt's a sad comment on comics if a drop in sales of 100 comics leads to a guy's "standing in comics" being ruined.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Sat Nov 16, 2013 2:58 pm
Judging by the reactions here, 200 more should buy his comics to support his right to "be a dude in a bar."
by McKegan » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:01 pm
Yes, no one has ever justifiably had anything bad to say about a dude in a bar.
by alaska1125 » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:20 pm
Ah. Now I remember you. Still a condescending ass. Good to know you keep it consistent.
Edit: Your arguments supporting drunken bad behavior toward women make a lot more sense now. #snark
by S.F. Jude Terror » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:25 pm
It's just bros being bros, dude.
by Frag » Sat Nov 16, 2013 3:55 pm
It would be if that wasn't a random number pulled out of someone's ass.
by alaska1125 » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:03 pm
Ok, genius. Since you seem to have all the answers, what kind of number do you think it'll hit? I certainly hope that you deal with students in a much less dickish manner than you do with people who disagree with you on this site.
by McKegan » Sat Nov 16, 2013 4:04 pm
I believe that random ass was yours. So, in the range of 100 to 400 depending on how many Wood books they were picking up.
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Many large retailers also held employee wages to the minimum in order to maintain profit margins.
However, is it more important that Americans can buy a cheap TV, or that more Americans can be employed and earn a living wage? If McDonald�s paid its employees a living wage, would it lose customers because a Big Mac would cost a few cents more?
There is a disturbing trend in wealth concentration in the U.S., and it doesn�t bode well for the middle class or the wealthy. Currently, 1 percent of Americans hold 40 percent of the wealth and 20 percent of Americans hold 80 percent of the wealth. That should concern all Americans.
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Huh? So Moka's mother was not simply one of the lords but was actually their leader? Above them all? Damn! she must have a lot of power yet she looks so innocent! How does Akua plan to beat her?
Also didn't quiet get... is that monster her relative or something?
Good to know that Akuha had really cared for Moka and that she wasn't completly pretending. Also seeing this cute side of Moka is a bit weird when you remember how cold she mostly is nowadays...
So Kurumi can enter dreams and memories? I hope she won't pop up in the middle of the fight... that will kinda ruin the moment.
Damn, I want new chapter already!
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Well, to me some of them are a little better then the most common ones and seem better to read, but that's only my personal opinion, the other ones have been made by Animesigma , and are pretty rare to find nowadays, since the group that made them, doesn't seem to have them anymore (from what I have seen, when I looked for them ) Unfortunately I don't really remember where I got them from in the end, so I doubt it's something I could help you with DragoZERO)
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I could come up with a theory and say that the Shinso blood is alive and chooses whether or not it wants its carrier to inherit its powers once it enters his/her bloodstream. It has accepted Akasha, but if Akuha did manage to get Akasha's blood, the Shinso blood did not accept to offer her its power. Instead, it offered her its power on the condition that she can get Moka on her side or at least get Moka close to her in some way. Only then will she be able to make use of the Shinso's power.
However, considering Akasha's power, I seriously doubt Akuha could beat Akasha. Akasha has the blood of a Shinso vampire. Akuha doesn't. Akuha's chances are pretty weak, but it's also pretty clear that Akuha is present and Akasha isn't, which could only mean that she defeated Akasha at the very least but did not obtain Shinso's power, hence why she is searching for Moka. So another theory came to my head which claims that while Akasha may have had the power before, she has lost it when she gave birth to Moka. Moka inherited the power and Akasha no longer has it. To avert attention away from Moka, Akasha gave Moka the rosary so that nobody would be able to sense that power coming from her, and she sent her away in order to protect her. Akuha only realized that when she defeated Akasha, and that's why she's after Moka now.
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Ch.31 was amazing, the leader of the three great dark lords is actually Akasha :O I'm even more amazed that Moka is considered an adult at the age of 10 (call me a weirdo but I think it's way too soon:P). Alucard's design seems familiar, wonder in which boss I've met him before...the plot's great though, Akuha joined the family just to get the "monster in the basement" and ofc, world domination. If there's a way to tag people as evil, it's definitely world domination^^ Kurumu entering their minds is a good idea, maybe she can see how Akuha fights and then beat her when they get back to the real world
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I don't think that acquiring the Shinso blood is the real trouble - if it was, Akasha wouldn't have time to rest for all the attempts to kill/kidnap her. I think that the Shinso blood is so potent that even a vampire might 'die' or be otherwise incapacitated if their body cannot accept the blood. So it might be a matter of 'can you handle it' type thing. Moka has the highest chance since she is Akasha's blood daughter.
As Takeo said, it's probably a reason, if not the reason, why Akuha has tried being so close to Moka and to get her to her 'side'. But as Moka-chan herself said, they are night and day in terms of personality, ambitions and the like.
I wonder...just how much power does a Shinso vampire wield... Apparently all the things that we've seen from Moka and even Kahula obviously pale in comparison to what a Shinso is capable of doing. *shivers*
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There seems to be a lot of inconsistency here. Ikeda better be careful as he continues on. It's important to keep a continuum.
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I mean that we shouldn't ignore the Headmaster's involvement in Tsukune's transformation when he sealed Tsukune's Vampire Blood, to protect him from becoming a Ghoul (Rosario + Vampire Season I, chapter 24, page 10) and also told Tsukune that the Lock hasn't been made for him (Rosario + Vampire Season I, chapter 28, page 18) ... it has already been made revealed that the Headmaster is also quite enjoying withholding crucial part's of information like when he sent Ruby and Tsukune to a spatial dimension which has been created by the Headmaster and named Paradise, but the Headmaster didn't mention that it was a paradise made for rare and already nearly extinct monsters , which pretty much shows the type of person that the Headmaster is.
Also with Mikogami being one of the companions of Akasha who is evidentially is a Shinso vampire ... do you think Mikogami wouldn't be able to recognize another Shinso vampire, and act accordingly if the said vampire injects his blood into a human, since if Moka is a Shinso vampire (even if she isn't aware of that) I really doubt she would be able to hide something like that from the Headmaster.
So if Tsukune has been injected with the blood of a Shinso don't you think that the Headmaster was somehow able to take control over Tsukune's "transformation" and mostly return Tsukunw to the he was, before he has been injected with Moka's vampire blood ... well with a few changes along the way, but still Tsukune was able to regain control over his body.
I mean we still don't really know how exactly complicated Tsukune's Holy Lock is ... and who knows it might be as complicated as Moka's Rosario ... for Tsukune to be able to keep his power\s at check during most of the time.
Of course there is still a lot we don't know about Shinso blood as well as Shinso vampires, but I wouldn't minimize the Exorcist being involved with Tsukune's transformation ... since with him being one of Akasha's companions I think he could easily sense and discover that Moka is a Shinso vampire .... and as a result he could definitely have some means to seal the power of a Shinso vampire and Moka's Rosario is probably a perfect example of that.
Though I definitely agree that acquiring the blood and power of a Shinso vampire isn't easy and it probably involves more then just taking the blood of a Shinso vampire to gain their power's ... though it's probably something that we will learn more about in the next chapter ... since with this chapter ending with Akuha trying to get Akasha's blood and Shinso power's, in the next chapter we are bound to learn more about that.
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Posted: Sat 27 Mar 2010, 01:12
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Making programs that install themselves like a virus
Subject description: No uninstall included.
I think that any program that is made should be made so that files and changes it makes can be removed by either an uninstall program or through use of making a PET package for the program.
Any program that makes modifications to files should include an uninstall script that will remove said modifications and restore the modified files to their previous condition.
I would expect program installation behavior like that from windows.
But this is linux and an installed program should not do a bunch of file modifications without a simple means of removal and restoration.
I have expressed my opinion on this.
It is also a reason we basically stopped using PUP packages in favor of PET packages for the ease of removal.
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Good plan.
Look forward to you going around to each existing pet
and repackaging with an uninstaller where not available
Hope that was the intention . . .
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The ability to do this requires a sane package format coupled with a complete package manager -the two are intimately bound. Puppy still does not really have either one of these.
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Bad idea. That requires you to keep the package, so you have the package itself and the installed contents. If gzip compresses it to 30%, you have 130% of the package's original size. That's BAD.
Another point, all packages will share lots of code, that's not efficient.
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Files installed can be removed but modifications made to files that are not in package (made by pinstall.sh) can't be restored and I don't see any package format that will be able to do this. Simply try not to package with pinstall.sh script and all other files can be removed by package manager. If you don't trust packages extract them then manually copy to system after inspecting package contents. I think package format is fine the way it is now.
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There's something called an application in a directory that might be a better idea. I forget the details, but basically it's just a directory you put anywhere you want, which contains the application program with all its dependencies and so forth. To uninstall the program you simply delete the directory. I think I've seen at least one application program for Puppy that's done this way.
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There's something called an application in a directory that might be a better idea. I forget the details, but basically it's just a directory you put anywhere you want, which contains the application program with all its dependencies and so forth. To uninstall the program you simply delete the directory. I think I've seen at least one application program for Puppy that's done this way.
That's called a PortableApp
but your probably thinking of a RoxApp
Can we focus though on the original post of this thread please. Which was a moan (Hope you don't minded that I call it that.) on packagers keeping to standards which I agree on or at least mention that there is no uninstall script when one is needed! Before any one moans at me yes I know (a very small amount though) that packaging is hard as I have some goods to upload.
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The package manager should be able to remove or update a package. To do so, it must know which fiels were installed by the package. It should also preserve any installation scripts so that it can (possibly) undo actions performed by it upon installation -such as removing links created by an install script.
Tghe utility of having a package manager remove everything installed by a program is debatable. For instance, a program installs a conf file. You edit the file to suit your needs. Do you really want to lose those customizations if the program is uninstalled? Probably not -you might re-install and want to use your old conf file. For this same reason, conf files should usually be handled in such a way, on installation, that your sutomized files will not be overwritten.
Package managers should also check for 'overlap' -that is, if a package installs a file which is also contained in another package, removing one of the packages should not remove the duplicated file.
A package manager should also allow for upgrading packages, by understanding version and release/build numbers.
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Well, let us say that the installed package writes modifications to your initrd file. Upon removal of the package, the modifications are still there.
So maybe a warning to back up said file in case you want to remove the package and have your initrd file as it was before the install.
Oh, I know how to get around this.
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What package modifies the initrd.gz? No packages should do that automatically, because the location is not standard and even if it was, it may be on a read-only partition. (Like a CD!). If it came from a CD it might not even still be in the drive and mounted.
@Iguleder: No, you wouldn't have to keep the package. Only a list of the files that were installed, and a copy or diff of the ones that were modified. Saving a copy of the install scripts would also be good, but not manditory, as long as you save the changes that the install scripts make. But scripts are small and compress very well (they are text), so saving them would be fine. Especially since the vast bulk of Puppy packages should not have any install scripts.
@8-bit: Reversing modifications is not trivial, unless you assume that the user will make no changes and that the packages will be removed in the same order they were installed (at least where overlap is concerned). Otherwise, what do you do if three packages all modify the same line of a configuration file, and you want to uninstall the second one? There is now way for the script to know what it should do. It can only guess, which is worse than doing nothing (unpredictable behavior is worse than bad but predictable behavior).
This is why I prefer to see packages that simply don't modify anything. The situation has improved over the years. Packages used to have to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local, /etc/profile.local, and ~/.xinitrc to have themselves autorun, or to have environmental variables they need set. But now they can just place a file in /etc/init.d, /etc/profile.d/, and ~/Startup/. Much easier to deal with from a package management standpoint.
Also, moving from dotpup, which was script based, to .pet, which is mostly handled by the package manager, was a major improvement. Not being required to mess with an install script makes people much less tempted to add scripted steps. Now doing that would involve going out of your way to create an install script.
I would like it even more if the .pet format were broken into two formats: .pet, and .pets, where .pets can have an install script. The .pet would be strictly copy only, no install scripts at all. That way people can see at a glance what kind of package they're getting, especially if the file icon were changed for .pets and a warning displayed on installation that a script was being run. In fact, a warning could be done with the current .pet implementation, and it could even have a button to let the user read the script before authorizing it to execute.
EDIT: Of course, there would ideally be an option to tell it not to bother you with those messages, for the people who don't worry about it.
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Statically compiled SFS files basically do this, they contain all the files for the app.,
except for the settings files that are usually in /etc or /usr/etc, but can be anywhere.
If only writable settings files are outside of the SFS file, then it`s a snap to clean it up.
Again... SFS files don`t clutter the file system with loose files that are a nightmare!
Also it`s almost impossible for SFS files to get viruses, but it
If the app. becomes corrupt, just replace the SFS file. No searching for the bad files.
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magic ermine does all of this even for shared libs - but you have to specifically tell it not to package libraries that you expect to be on the system (gtk etc...) otherwise you get a huge package full of shared libraries. I have tested it in 421 and it worked pretty well - abiword as a single file executable
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"When we released the game, we promised people that for $2.99 (£1.79) they would get Ridiculous Fishing without any further in-app purchases or anything," he told Digital Spy at PC and indie games expo Rezzed.The result? Well, Ridiculous Fishing got real big, real fast. Ninja Fishing did okay as well, but Ismail's game has the kind of cachet that only comes with a tightly developed game and a loyal fanbase. Built largely off of his promise to refrain from in-app purchases and his passion for his customers, the whole thing exploded on iOS once it was released.
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"Then what happened, that bubble just exploded. Elijah Wood played Ridiculous Fishing and tweeted about it. That's mind-blowing. That's not something that happens. We didn't expect it to be this big - we hoped it would be this size. We really hoped this would be the definitive statement about creativity will always win, because obviously the whole cloning background is still there for us, right?A ton of downloads and one Apple design award later, Ismail serves as the perfect example of what the combination of fan loyalty and well-designed products mean in the war against game cloners. Instead of focusing on being angry and going the legal route, Ismail won because his game is better. Something to which the rest of the developer community should probably be paying attention.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. - MIT men's basketball captured it's first-ever tournament championship after defeating Endicott College, 74-69, in the finals of the UMass-Dartmouth Tip-Off Tournament. Senior Adam Gibbons hammered out 45 points and seven steals during the two-day swing, and was named Tournament MVP.
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