"So, your brilliant idea is to slow down a CPU to save power? Hmmm, I wonder who else might do that."
Thank you for the oportunity to present this information to the public.
The difference between that patent application and the ones filed by Intel, AMD, Sony, etc is that they all control CPU speed by knowing in advance that they want to slow it down. In short, all of their work is on PROACTIVE power control.
My work is on REACTIVE power control, something no one else in 2003 had thought of.
The device it was invented for runs UNMODIFIED programs from other devices. This was a novel way to reduce power consumption without modifing the programs or knowing in advance what they would do.
"You're either a fraud or you're insane."
Actually I'm neither. Most hams who live outside of the U.S. use a relative's address for mail from the FCC. It's done so that mail from them can be forwarded to me via airmail by a relative and I get it in a week, instead of the two to three months first class mail takes.
This is very common, one guy must have a big house, because hundreds of Japanese hams live at his address (it's a business for him).
"No one is going to e-mail you because this is the most transparently obvious and least skillful troll that Slashdot has ever seen"
How would you know? Obviously you never bothered to look. First, my/. id is my ham radio callsign, not some fake name I am hiding under, I have held it since 1993.
Second, I have been posting to newsgroups under several id's because I often did it at work, but you can look me up at the mendelson.com id, or by searching "groups" for "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" since 1991.
Third, if you looked at the posts from 2003 and 2004, you would have seen that I was the CTO of GW&T, the company that developed it.
Fourth, if you look at the patent applications that I mentioned you would see my name as an inventor, along with my son Paul.
Fifth, people who have emailed me have gorten coherent answers to the questions, including one who posted that he discovered that I really was the person I claimed to be.
My posts start at zero because I hold and profess ideas that the/. managment does not like and complain to them about it. For example the boycott of Google by ham radio operators, or a post in support of DRM by a library.
"For fucks sake, you're not even clever enough to open a new Slashdot account"
Why would I do that? I stand behind my postings and in 14 years of being on he internet have never hidden behind an alias or anonymous id.
"In summary, you are an attention seeker who has failed to attract much attention".
I got yours, didn't I? and the best you could do is an ad-homonim, (personal attack), with absolutely no facts or information in it.
It's ironic that you have spent so much time accusing me of exactly what you are doing.
I do thank you for your (unintended) support and the opourtunity to state my case again.
No, they did not. I have been told by them not to mention any more here, but if you would email me, I can put you in touch with them.
The GP32 did not run most of the stuff they claim the new machine will run. It ran a few proprietary games and not much else.
Please check your sources before you post.
We presented our device and business plan to a large
Korean company. They invited GamePark to see it. They copied our description and device except for an ARM processor instead of the 1gHz AMD we used, because the Korean company makes ARM processors under license. If you send me your email offline, mine is in my sig, I'll forward it to someone who can send you more details.
The device they stole the design of had a CF slot so that you could put in a microdrive. They changed it to SD to be different. The idea was not to make a user who did not want high capacity pay the cash or battery drain it required.
When we built the unit it was copied from, we could not get anything better than 1/4 VGA (320x240) in that size, they just copied our business plan.
We found that most windows and dos games that played well in a handheld device worked fine in 1/4 VGA with appropriate image compression technology. The games that really needed the high resoultion were
too complex for a handheld device or too slow on a 1ghz processor.
The reason they don't have any screen shots is that it was stolen from an Israeli company that had devloped a unit with a 1ghz AMD processor that would play PC games and all the other functions. The text of their anouncement was a copy of the Israeli business plan with a few errors introduced to make it look different. The Israeli web site is down, but look at US patent applications 20050108591 and 2005010765.
GamePark was shown the original machine under an NDA.
The taxes here in Israel have forced this to its illogical confusion. A printer which happens to include ink as part of the package is taxed as a computer at 17%. Ink sold seperately (no matter what it is in) is taxed at around 100%. This makes the cost of a cheap printer with ink included a little more than a set of cartridges. Low volume users just buy new printers and try to give away or sell the old ones. People often take them but when they see the price of the ink, the printer ends up on a shelf.
Interoperability is not an issue here. This is intended as an ADDITIONAL way of providing copies of the "book", not the only way. You can still go to the library and check out a copy. If you are unable to go to the library, for example a handicaped person, then you can check out a copy and listen to it on your computer. Microsoft DRM works on Windows and MACINTOSH, and that's about 95% of the home computers out there. If a library can for a little additional money, distrubute books to 95% of their patrons, it's a big win. In effect the library is now open to these patrons 24/7 so everyone wins. If you don't have a computer, or can't run the Microsft media player, you don't loose, you just don't gain anything. Since the library is making it clear that you are able to use the "book" for a limited time up front, and not burying it in the fine print, I see nothing wrong, you never think that you own the copy.
The reason the number of Google searches has gone down is that the boycott of Google by ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, CB users and other radio hobbyists has started to show its effect. While I am one of the most vocal of them, many have quietly persuaded their family and friends to use other search engines. This is an effort to stop Googles support of Broadband over Power Lines, a misserable failure in all of its tests because it interfers with radio communtications around the world.
So much so that my "Ask Slashdot" about Google alternatives was ignored. My email asking why my question was ignored was ignored too. I am boycotting Google because they invested in Broadband over Powelines which will destroy long and mediun range radio communications.
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Thank you for the oportunity to present this information to the public.
The difference between that patent application and the ones filed by Intel, AMD, Sony, etc is that they all control CPU speed by knowing in advance that they want to slow it down. In short, all of their work is on PROACTIVE power control.
My work is on REACTIVE power control, something no one else in 2003 had thought of.
The device it was invented for runs UNMODIFIED programs from other devices. This was a novel way to reduce power consumption without modifing the programs or knowing in advance what they would do.
"You're either a fraud or you're insane."
Actually I'm neither. Most hams who live outside of the U.S. use a relative's address for mail from the FCC. It's done so that mail from them can be forwarded to me via airmail by a relative and I get it in a week, instead of the two to three months first class mail takes.
This is very common, one guy must have a big house, because hundreds of Japanese hams live at his address (it's a business for him).
Geoff.
How would you know? Obviously you never bothered to look. First, my /. id is my ham radio callsign, not some fake name I am hiding under, I have held it since 1993.
Second, I have been posting to newsgroups under several id's because I often did it at work, but you can look me up at the mendelson.com id, or by searching "groups" for "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" since 1991.
Third, if you looked at the posts from 2003 and 2004, you would have seen that I was the CTO of GW&T, the company that developed it.
Fourth, if you look at the patent applications that I mentioned you would see my name as an inventor, along with my son Paul.
Fifth, people who have emailed me have gorten coherent answers to the questions, including one who posted that he discovered that I really was the person I claimed to be.
My posts start at zero because I hold and profess ideas that the /. managment does not like and complain to them about it. For example the boycott of Google by ham radio operators, or a post in support of DRM by a library.
"For fucks sake, you're not even clever enough to open a new Slashdot account"
Why would I do that? I stand behind my postings and in 14 years of being on he internet have never hidden behind an alias or anonymous id.
"In summary, you are an attention seeker who has failed to attract much attention".
I got yours, didn't I? and the best you could do is an ad-homonim, (personal attack), with absolutely no facts or information in it.
It's ironic that you have spent so much time accusing me of exactly what you are doing.
I do thank you for your (unintended) support and the opourtunity to state my case again.
Geoff.
No, they did not. I have been told by them not to mention any more here, but if you would email me, I can put you in touch with them. The GP32 did not run most of the stuff they claim the new machine will run. It ran a few proprietary games and not much else. Please check your sources before you post.
We presented our device and business plan to a large Korean company. They invited GamePark to see it. They copied our description and device except for an ARM processor instead of the 1gHz AMD we used, because the Korean company makes ARM processors under license. If you send me your email offline, mine is in my sig, I'll forward it to someone who can send you more details.
The device they stole the design of had a CF slot so that you could put in a microdrive. They changed it to SD to be different. The idea was not to make a user who did not want high capacity pay the cash or battery drain it required.
When we built the unit it was copied from, we could not get anything better than 1/4 VGA (320x240) in that size, they just copied our business plan. We found that most windows and dos games that played well in a handheld device worked fine in 1/4 VGA with appropriate image compression technology. The games that really needed the high resoultion were too complex for a handheld device or too slow on a 1ghz processor.
The reason they don't have any screen shots is that it was stolen from an Israeli company that had devloped a unit with a 1ghz AMD processor that would play PC games and all the other functions. The text of their anouncement was a copy of the Israeli business plan with a few errors introduced to make it look different. The Israeli web site is down, but look at US patent applications 20050108591 and 2005010765. GamePark was shown the original machine under an NDA.
The taxes here in Israel have forced this to its illogical confusion. A printer which happens to include ink as part of the package is taxed as a computer at 17%. Ink sold seperately (no matter what it is in) is taxed at around 100%. This makes the cost of a cheap printer with ink included a little more than a set of cartridges. Low volume users just buy new printers and try to give away or sell the old ones. People often take them but when they see the price of the ink, the printer ends up on a shelf.
Interoperability is not an issue here. This is intended as an ADDITIONAL way of providing copies of the "book", not the only way. You can still go to the library and check out a copy. If you are unable to go to the library, for example a handicaped person, then you can check out a copy and listen to it on your computer.
Microsoft DRM works on Windows and MACINTOSH, and that's about 95% of the home computers out there.
If a library can for a little additional money, distrubute books to 95% of their patrons, it's a big win.
In effect the library is now open to these patrons 24/7 so everyone wins. If you don't have a computer, or can't run the Microsft media player, you don't loose, you just don't gain anything.
Since the library is making it clear that you are able to use the "book" for a limited time up front, and not burying it in the fine print, I see nothing wrong, you never think that you own the copy.
The reason the number of Google searches has gone down is that the boycott of Google by ham radio operators, shortwave listeners, CB users and other radio hobbyists has started to show its effect.
While I am one of the most vocal of them, many have quietly persuaded their family and friends to use other search engines.
This is an effort to stop Googles support of Broadband over Power Lines, a misserable failure in all of its tests because it interfers with radio communtications around the world.
So much so that my "Ask Slashdot" about Google alternatives was ignored. My email asking why my question was ignored was ignored too. I am boycotting Google because they invested in Broadband over Powelines which will destroy long and mediun range radio communications.