I think the name is intended to be a sports reference, to the list of set plays that a team develops ahead of time.
The use of metaphors referring to team sports is nearly universal in corporates and Fedland. "She's not a team player" is about the worst thing that could be said of someone. You're expected to "take one for the team" when your boss screws up. And so on.
So, in RIM's target market, "playbook" is intended to hook into key parts of the cult-ure.
You omitted the other, probably the biggest, advantage: reduced power draw.
Someone (Vaclav Smil?) calculated that the old Pentium 4, at 3.2 GHz, had about the same power density as the inside of a jet engine. (This is watts per square meter, for the picky.) There have been improvements since then in the computational parts of chips, but not so much in the interfaces.
Power density, heat dissipation, has been the real barrier to chip packing. There's another whole dimension to exploit when we crack that: the 3rd.
"As an employer I would have to wonder what else you couldnt figure out. "
Ummm, lemme see. Ballet. Turkish. Arboriculture - no, wait, I can figure that out. Scrimshaw. Making dovetail joints by hand. Why people like playing Second Life.
Get real. There's only so much one person can learn in one lifetime. If it isn't relevant, it isn't relevant, and you're depriving yourself of part of the candidate pool. Your foot for shooting, I guess.
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I think the name is intended to be a sports reference, to the list of set plays that a team develops ahead of time.
The use of metaphors referring to team sports is nearly universal in corporates and Fedland. "She's not a team player" is about the worst thing that could be said of someone. You're expected to "take one for the team" when your boss screws up. And so on.
So, in RIM's target market, "playbook" is intended to hook into key parts of the cult-ure.
Yeah, nah, yeah, you're onto it, bro. [NZ dialect - for more see Beached Az ]
Your nom de clavier is "Zediker" ... and you're laughing at someone else's name?
You omitted the other, probably the biggest, advantage: reduced power draw.
Someone (Vaclav Smil?) calculated that the old Pentium 4, at 3.2 GHz, had about the same power density as the inside of a jet engine. (This is watts per square meter, for the picky.) There have been improvements since then in the computational parts of chips, but not so much in the interfaces.
Power density, heat dissipation, has been the real barrier to chip packing. There's another whole dimension to exploit when we crack that: the 3rd.
"As an employer I would have to wonder what else you couldnt figure out. "
Ummm, lemme see. Ballet. Turkish. Arboriculture - no, wait, I can figure that out. Scrimshaw. Making dovetail joints by hand. Why people like playing Second Life.
Get real. There's only so much one person can learn in one lifetime. If it isn't relevant, it isn't relevant, and you're depriving yourself of part of the candidate pool. Your foot for shooting, I guess.
... for WinFS. Now that sounded like something worthwhile. Wake me up when it's here. Kthxbye.