Jim Drew: Banned from PBN, mounting a sanitation campain on other boards!

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Hey..don't I get any love for my "Bea vs. WAS" thread (that was ultimately deleted)?

[ScatterPlot]

If it's not too hard to do, could someone please explain what the crap is going on? Who is Jim Drew (WAS guy I think?) What did he do wrong? And is there no new Warp board?

[SlartyBartFast]

The Jim Drew saga isn't new and it isn't limited to paintball.

Is history repeating itself?

http://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/al/guide/al102/jim_drew_good_or_bad.HTML

[DiRTyBuNNy]

Originally posted by SlartyBartFast
The Jim Drew saga isn't new and it isn't limited to paintball.

Is history repeating itself?
http://www.lysator.liu.se/amiga/al/g...od_or_bad.HTML

yeah...probably...but if he wasn't such a self-promoting jerk it wouldn't happen...and if people were smart enough to do some research and call people on the carpet for acting that way..it wouldn't keep happening..

[cledford]

Some Drew goodies from his last thread...

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The sensor that I created has the ability to measure distance. By having this capability, we know exactly where the ball is located in the breech.

With the Intimdiator, Angel Speed (with Equalizer), Viking, Bushmaster, etc. there is some delay period required due to the eyes being placed too high in the breech. This delay period must be made for the worst case scenario (gravity feed hopper), and thus the potential rate of fire will be reduced because of it. With the Intimidator, the time it takes to pressurize the hoses is sufficient enough of a delay, but with the Angel and Bushmaster (where the pneumatics are faster) the delay must be much longer. When using the sensor that I designed (which has a specific focal point based on a .690 ball curvature), I can tell you exactly how far from the bottom of the breech the ball is to within ~.001" accuracy. There is absolutely no delay period necessary, and as a result the potential rate of fire is highest possible.
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I would expect this type of response from you. I have provided real data, backed by test equipment results and independant testing. You seem to forget that developing cutting edge products is what I do daily, so I am use to having test equipment running and comparing competing products. "Lies" don't exist, and I have never taken people's money for product and not given anything to them for months on end. I run a real multi-million dollar business, not some fly-by-night operation.

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Manufacturers have a pretty reasonable say in what goes in their markers, as they have the power to void warranties for anything that is not approved by them (regardless of what laws you look at).

Goldie, I have no clue who you are. I know that Defiance was involved with the board at some point and his business history is what I was referring to... something that is easy to find with a quick search via PBNATION.

Want a hugely successful company? How about 7 of them (like what I now have)? Make cutting edge products and promote them until people are absolutely sick of you! Who knew of Wicked Air Sportz a year ago? Nobody... but now with more than 20,000 Equalizer boards being used, I can go to any event and hang out with pros, celebrities, and regular players, and everyone knows who I am. We will exceed Smart Parts' net profit this year in revenue. Not bad for a company that has spent $0 advertising. Get agressive... but you better have the best product going or you will go down in flames!

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The quality difference is probably easy to prove... our boards are made and inspected with panels of sidewinder missle controller boards. The PCBs are electrically tested prior to SMT. They are then built, x-ray'd, hand inspected, electrically tested, and then a sample is cross sectioned to check quality of each run. You get what you pay for.

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Someone asked about how to make a company bigger, and I was siting stats... this had nothing to do with better coding.

Contribution margin without R&D costs is roughly 93%. The R&D number is a variable that is controlled by the CPAs to work their magic. We are not a public company (and neither is the company that owns Wicked Air Sportz), but the return on equity is exceptionally high because of the fact that the technology is repeatitive, requiring no real maintenance or change. Once the initial investment was made, there were no unexpected expendatures. In fact, I made it a point that when the boards were designed that all boards use the exact same components to further the production cost savings. Using a military contractor allows us to offer a lifetime warranty (an attactive selling point), as well as limit the number of returns which requires resources to correct. In the end, the use of the contractor has saved us thousands of dollars.

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[cledford]

More...

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I didn't get banned. I asked that all of the posts made by WickedAirSportz be removed from PBNATION and the account be terminated (I PM'd Timebomb asking for this request, and fortunately I saved his reply so that Jon could view it if necessary). Instead of following through with my request (which he stated he would), he left all of the messages and banned the account. Brilliant. I will be contacting Jon about this matter.

P.S. Nobody hacked our boards, and there are no "special" boards except for Bob's personal boards that show cycle time and other diagnostic info.

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I want all of the messages posted under WickedAirSportz removed, as you stated you would. If necessary I will seek a court order to see that this is done.

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I was told that my posts would be removed. Prior to that, I had been deleting dozens of posts daily. Banning the account removes the ability to do this. Nonetheless, I am already in contact with Tony, so I believe this situation will be taken care of now.

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Technically, it is liable (because of being in print). Not too funny, actually.

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After chatting with Bob Long and doing inventory this week, we have calculated that about 91% of all Intimidators sold have Equalizer boards installed in them! This is assuming we have sold about 300 Intimidator Equalizer boards to Bushmaster owners (as we have noted).

I just wanted to say THANKS to all Intimidator owners for their support and believing in our products!
FRom last 2 threads...

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I just asked that my 3000+ posts be removed from the database. I have already deliberately deleted posts in the middle of numerous threads so that don't make any sense now when you read them. I asked you to remove them all, and you stated exactly what you would do (including "taking care of the imposter account"). I was told by several of the mods that removing all posts from a user is accomplished with a few simple mouse clicks. It would have been far easier to comply (and never have to deal with me again) than to start a war with me.

After seeing PBNATION magazine on the newstand and getting ad rates, I was seriously considering using that magazine as the mainstay for our ads. After the issue with the mods, and now this, I can't see spending my money with anything associated with PBNATION.

[cledford]

SMOKIN GUN?!?!?!?

Hmmm, rumors of special "cheater boards" for the Ironmen...

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Posted by timebomb at http://www.pbnation.com/showthread.p...1&pagenumber=4

I read most of the thread as well, he's a tard. And another funny thing to mention is the fact that I recently came across a cheater board of his from the Bob Long Ironmen (has players name written on board, and it's a 2.0 which equalinks do not work with.), funny how he claimed none of his stuff was cheater yet this board (even tried in 3 guns to ensure it wasn't a weird microswitch) starts bouncing at 10bps and over, even though the debounce is set to 30ms. So he has one of two things he can say...

1. he can claim someone hacked his board and changed the settings so his argument against those of you guys with new boards and what not will also fall onto his shoulders

2. he put it in on his own knowingly, willingly, and illegally.

OH well, guess his lies extend yet again.

Mike

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posted by GZgurl at same URL

Mike, I've shot a gun with that board in it, and I beleive it's reffered to as the mysterious white board, I was unaware who produced it til now tho

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[Pacifist_Farmer]

I think stories like these warrant actions!

We need to coin a phrase, kinda like calling someone a Benedict Arnold, except it would be Jim Drew

[SlartyBartFast]

If so, sounds like the death nell of WAS.

Could it also be the death nell of ALL electronic programmable boards? THAT might be a good thing for the tournament scene.

Cheater boards. Who'd have thought it.

And as far as deleting posts goes, that's pathetic. Although I use it, I'm even against the posibility of editing posts. What you say in public SHOULD be kept. Especially when the posts of so many others in a thread depend on what you've posted.

Well, if WAS wasn't behind cheater boards, it's hardly rocket science. Spend a couple of minutes on Google looking at PIC programming. A few bucks, some time spent, and you can be programming your own microcontrollers.

Even if a chip is locked, it's not much work or skill to solder in a new PIC with the clandestine code.

WAS would have liked you to beleive it's rocket science, but it isn't.

So what are everyones guesses as to who is after Jim Drew?

[AGD]

[i]
So what are everyones guesses as to who is after Jim Drew? [/B]

Hey I will step up, need to find my marketing hat, its around here somewhere......

AGD

[SlartyBartFast]

Originally posted by AGD
Hey I will step up, need to find my marketing hat, its around here somewhere......

AGD

Cute.

But you'd need a magician's hat to replace WAS. Only a true conjurer can make that much use out of smoke and mirrors.

But that's not what I meant. What I meant is, does anybody know who/what has WAS in such a panic? Obviously someone has threatened him with serious harm (financial or otherwise) based on something he said and he's in a panic to remove all traces.

Which brings up an interesting point. In a legal battle, discussion boards could get sued for destruction of evidence if they didn't keep good backups.

But try as he might, if it's serious Jim will learn that lot's of things posted on the 'Net are eternal.

[Smoke]

My my my....this certainly is interesting.....

[adam shannon]

if hes being sued by...oh, say, the gardners their lawyers already have every word he has ever written or spoken in public before they ever filed. so hes just adding a charge of destruction of evidence. its like watching a tv crime show and seeing the clumsy after the act attempt to wipe fingerprints and such...funny.

the funniest thing was sying that he was going to use pbn magazine for all his advertising. from what ive heard pbn magazine and the pbn boards are two seperate entities from diffrent people and theres already a legal battle between those two for name swiping.

[ogre55]

Originally posted by adam shannon
if hes being sued by...oh, say, the gardners their lawyers already have every word he has ever written or spoken in public before they ever filed. so hes just adding a charge of destruction of evidence. its like watching a tv crime show and seeing the clumsy after the act attempt to wipe fingerprints and such...funny.

the funniest thing was sying that he was going to use pbn magazine for all his advertising. from what ive heard pbn magazine and the pbn boards are two seperate entities from diffrent people and theres already a legal battle between those two for name swiping.

I second that notion. What is obvious is that someone definetely have Jim Drew's gonads in a vice and they are squeezing....hard.

This guy does most of his advertising on the pb boards. For him to try to take down all those post, it seems that he is killing the goose that lays his golden eggs.

Ogre

[hitech]

Originally posted by SlartyBartFast
In a legal battle, discussion boards could get sued for destruction of evidence if they didn't keep good backups.

Are you sure about that? I doubt it. I'm not aware of any law requiring anyone to keep information just in case someone wants it for a law suit.