I work in IT for a law firm.
If any lawyer came up to me and asked for a laptop that did NOT have this feature (or to turn it off), I would laugh in their face.
How hard is it to understand:
1) Computers have so much speed now that only the most graphic intensive game or the most complex calculations are going to come close to pushing their limit.
2) Batteries have not kept up with chips, and thus have laughable capacities for the things you use.
3) Unless you carry spare fully charged batteries with you, you have to be a moron not to use the incredibally helpfull feature that you are complaining about. Even if you are playing Doom, it is far better to play Doom for 2 hours with a slight jerkiness and speed reduction, than to lose power and have to kill the game 1 hour into your 2 hour train ride.
Computerized gambling works as follows:
A human invents a game and then publishes documentaion describing what he did. The inventor has 100% over all factors
Regular gambling works as follows: Find a supposedly unpredicatable (or at least unreliably predicatable) event.
Develop and and publish rules for betting on it.
Ways to cheat on Regular gambling:
Find a method of predicting the event.
Trick the system so as to change your bet or change/disguise the event after the game is over.
Ways to cheat at computerized gambling:
Everything above
Plus: lie about what you documented.
and most importantly, the human in real life is SELECTING the unpredicatable event as opposed to CREATING it. By definition, he has control over about 5% compared to 100%
Chances are the Casinos are not also manufacturing:
the Cards used in poker
let alone the die in the ink used on the cards,
or the wax used,
or the back design.
They SELECT from what is available, instead of making to their own order.
This forces them to give up a lot of the control.
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I work in IT for a law firm. If any lawyer came up to me and asked for a laptop that did NOT have this feature (or to turn it off), I would laugh in their face. How hard is it to understand: 1) Computers have so much speed now that only the most graphic intensive game or the most complex calculations are going to come close to pushing their limit. 2) Batteries have not kept up with chips, and thus have laughable capacities for the things you use. 3) Unless you carry spare fully charged batteries with you, you have to be a moron not to use the incredibally helpfull feature that you are complaining about. Even if you are playing Doom, it is far better to play Doom for 2 hours with a slight jerkiness and speed reduction, than to lose power and have to kill the game 1 hour into your 2 hour train ride.
Computerized gambling works as follows: A human invents a game and then publishes documentaion describing what he did. The inventor has 100% over all factors Regular gambling works as follows: Find a supposedly unpredicatable (or at least unreliably predicatable) event. Develop and and publish rules for betting on it. Ways to cheat on Regular gambling: Find a method of predicting the event. Trick the system so as to change your bet or change/disguise the event after the game is over. Ways to cheat at computerized gambling: Everything above Plus: lie about what you documented. and most importantly, the human in real life is SELECTING the unpredicatable event as opposed to CREATING it. By definition, he has control over about 5% compared to 100% Chances are the Casinos are not also manufacturing: the Cards used in poker let alone the die in the ink used on the cards, or the wax used, or the back design. They SELECT from what is available, instead of making to their own order. This forces them to give up a lot of the control.
Amazing how many people instnatly think they can get free energy here. The breakthrough here is just profitability and efficiency, not new science.