Monday, May 9, 2011

1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept

1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Volkswagen Golf GTI W12
  • Volkswagen Golf GTI W12



  • IconicM
    Apr 20, 08:56 AM
    Being that iP4 and iP5 will have the same form factor, wouldn't it make sense for Apple to make the 4 the same as the 5, i.e. no glass on the back and whatever other external changes the 5 brings? I would think they would be able to save money...same on the outside, different on the inside.

    So maybe it will be a release of the 4S and 5?





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. vw-golf-gti-w12-concept-body-
  • vw-golf-gti-w12-concept-body-



  • Multimedia
    Aug 7, 06:24 PM
    The G5 is almost as fast per clock cycle.
    Apple COULD have released quad G5 3ghz instead, but they want us to use Intel.

    The whole Intel project is beacuse of no G5 laptop.

    Stupid IBM. I do not like X86, the play plattform.
    But, I have changed all my PPC macs to Intel now.
    Macbook pro, Macbook, macmini and today a Macpro.Congrats on making the shift. I will probably wait for 8 cores. But I am tempted because of the 6 Bays and the additional front ports. Maybe I'll get a refurb in the Fall. Still want a Core 2 MBP more I guess. Really want 8 cores. Might just hold out until Spring so Leopard is inside 8 cores. Love Leopard features. :)

    Stupid IBM...





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Photo from:W12 Nardo concept, 621 bhp, just 46 miles on the clock - (639x426 - 28kB) http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p4419977
  • Photo from:W12 Nardo concept, 621 bhp, just 46 miles on the clock - (639x426 - 28kB) http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?p4419977



  • Don't panic
    May 3, 09:07 PM
    ok, this is my proposal so we get going:
    we temporarily split in two groups.
    round1 turn 1:
    a) appleguy (wilmer) and one or two more (ucf-rohn and aggie-rosius?) explore the start room
    b) moyank (beatrice), me (Loras), plutonius (Jorah) and maybe another one (eldiablo-dante?) split and move to the door to the top right, as suggested by beatrice. hopefully no monster there on round one, but if so 3-4 people should be enough to deal with it
    round1 turn2:
    - group a) joins group b) in the same room
    - group b) explores the second room for traps and treasure





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Photo from:VW W12 Nardo. It would have been great. - (1024x686 - 138kB - Full Size Image) http://www.slackers.co.za/viewtopic.php?f32amp;t17660
  • Photo from:VW W12 Nardo. It would have been great. - (1024x686 - 138kB - Full Size Image) http://www.slackers.co.za/viewtopic.php?f32amp;t17660



  • silentnite
    Apr 26, 04:05 PM
    Competition is good , however with that being said. It's any one's game from month to month depending on how well the o.s. is developed & how often an update comes out. I'm sure apple has a lot up it's sleeve and I'm not just saying that because I own the iPhone 4. I also own a G-2 from Google.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Volkswagen W12 Coupe Concept 2001 Pictures 04. photo zoom: medium | large
  • Volkswagen W12 Coupe Concept 2001 Pictures 04. photo zoom: medium | large



  • Blipp
    Apr 25, 08:57 AM
    Call me naive (or perhaps paranoid) but I've been assuming my location is being tracked since I bought my first smart phone years ago.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Volkswagen Nardo W12 Concept
  • Volkswagen Nardo W12 Concept



  • vincenz
    Apr 25, 10:56 AM
    Only Steve could reply with sentences like those and get away with it. :p





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show
  • 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show



  • trondah
    Mar 31, 03:30 AM
    What everybody would like to know, is Safari any snappier?





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. VW Golf GTI W12 Concept: 650Hp
  • VW Golf GTI W12 Concept: 650Hp



  • snberk103
    May 5, 09:23 PM
    Fine, but prove to me it's because of the metric system.

    I don't know that it does.... I was merely rebutting the point that learning the Imperial measures gave US kids a competitive edge.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show
  • 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show



  • miles01110
    Apr 25, 08:51 AM
    Yes. I'm sure that consolidated.db just appeared randomly and it's all a huge media conspiracy.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2007 Volkswagen Golf Gti W12
  • 2007 Volkswagen Golf Gti W12



  • Silentwave
    Sep 11, 12:26 AM
    IF that TiVo rumor is true, it will be a dream come to life!

    Proud owner of a Mac....and a Tivo w/DVD burner.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe
  • 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe



  • weckart
    Nov 15, 01:32 PM
    Is there anything it's not terribly good at?

    It doesn't appear to be too good at dealing with Time Machine back ups (http://recoveringphysicist.com/17/did-sophos-free-a-v-for-mac-kill-my-time-machine-backups). Tread with caution.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2007 Volkswagen GTI W12 650; 2007 Volkswagen Golf Gti W12 650 Concept. Volkswagen Golf GTI W12; Volkswagen Golf GTI W12
  • 2007 Volkswagen GTI W12 650; 2007 Volkswagen Golf Gti W12 650 Concept. Volkswagen Golf GTI W12; Volkswagen Golf GTI W12



  • ptysell
    May 6, 12:29 AM
    Can always have a system with ARM AND x86 CPUs.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2007 Volkswagen GTI W12 650
  • 2007 Volkswagen GTI W12 650



  • aswitcher
    Sep 11, 03:28 AM
    i present you...

    the mediamac:
    http://www.twirl.ch/mc/other/mediamac.jpg

    I would be happy if it was in aluminium and in black to allow better cooling. But that would be mighty fine.

    Would be nice with a usb and firewire port in front as well.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Volkswagen Scirocco GT24
  • Volkswagen Scirocco GT24



  • iVeBeenDrinkin'
    Apr 10, 02:51 AM
    It must be on par with your math skills then. Horrible.

    I detect some sarcasm here, but I'm not sure, you didn't tell us if you were trying to be or not.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. Volkswagen Golf GTI W12
  • Volkswagen Golf GTI W12



  • brepublican
    Sep 10, 11:37 PM
    I am hopeful that we will see a new video iPod alongside a movie store debut.
    My hopes exactly. It's definitely going to be the addition of movies to iTMS. New iPods? They're due aren't they? Might as well roll them out, I wouldnt put it past SJ...





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe
  • 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe



  • marcosscriven
    May 6, 02:46 AM
    Fake. Yet another chipset change would lead to many unnecessary problems.

    Like some others have said - Apple, being so wonderfully customer-experience focussed, wouldn't do this is there weren't some tangible benefits that outweighed the downsides.

    Yes, this could be a 'fake' rumour, but it's certainly well within the realms of possibility.

    As I mentioned above, the biggest hurdle would be x86 emulation. I would suspect ARM are looking at that closely, and would have some kind of on-chip functionality to speed up that process.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show
  • 2001 Volkswagen Nardo W12 Show



  • Kalach
    Apr 21, 02:56 PM
    wow! a redesign to the mac pro would be great :D





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe
  • 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe



  • MattG
    May 7, 09:05 PM
    Finally, they'll be charging what the service is worth!

    No kidding. I wouldn't mind paying the fee every year if they'd just make MobileMe web-mail work worth a damn. SO slow...freezes up constantly. It's pretty much an every day thing, I have to refresh my browser or just close it completely and log back in, because a page I click on simply won't load.





    1997 Volkswagen W12 Concept. 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe
  • 2001 Volkswagen W12 Coupe



  • callmemike20
    Apr 18, 08:18 PM
    What constitutes being a "last resort"?

    It makes more sense to me to put in clauses that reverse tax increases once a goal has been reached.

    Use all the tools in the tool chest to solve the problem.

    You clause is a great idea, but we all know that taxes never go away. Wasn't the income tax supposed to be temporary also? Once the government gets their hands on more money, they become less worried about adjusting their spending because the problem is basically fixed (in their minds) due to the additional income.

    You are right about using all the tools available to solve the problem. So let me recommend something. It's basically a reversal of your clause. The clause would allow a taxation adjustment (which would be predetermined) once 20% of spending has been cut (or some other amount).

    An example (with simplified numbers):

    Government Income: $1 billion
    Government Spending: $1.50 billion
    Total government debt: $5 billion

    Defense Spending: $ 300 million (20%)
    Social Security: $300 million (20%)
    Police/Fire Spending: $200 million (about 13%)
    Medical: $250 million (about 17%)
    Other: $450 million (30%)

    Now, let's say an agreement was made that would increase tax income to $1.2 billion, but in order for those taxes to be effective, the spending must be cut to $1.1 billion ( $0.1 billion difference for miscalculations and to pay off debt). So, each of those departments should still obtain the same amount of funding as % of government income, so 20% of $1.1 billion would be $220 million, which is a reduction of 80 million for defense.

    Go down the line and do this for every department. If it doesn't work, then cut other programs to provide adequate funding the the extremely necessary departments that need it.





    darrens
    Aug 4, 08:28 AM
    Apple could go a long way by keeping their inventory short and getting customers the latest technology quickly.

    I think I remeber reading that exact point in an interview with an Intel exec - they like the way Apple can bring a product to market quickly, and use innovative technologies in their chips before anyone else.





    SirHaakon
    Mar 30, 12:25 AM
    I really do like the concept of having an enormous amount of online storage, immediately accessible from anywhere.. but ultimately I see this as an issue of me having to pay someone else for granting access to things I already own.
    So that storage unit you have filled with couches and tennis rackets and old baseball cards... that should be free as well?

    Let's be reasonable here. They have to buy drives (multiple drives, because clearly they need redundancy and backup) to put your music on and they have to pay for the bandwidth to pipe it out to you. I hardly think $1 for 20 gigabytes of available anywhere storage is very unreasonable.

    Do you like paying a fee to your bank when you take out YOUR OWN MONEY from the bank?
    No, of course not... but that's different. They aren't storing physical cash somewhere anymore, it's all just a line of electronic code that states what your balance is. Why should anyone have to pay for that? And before you tell me that digital music is just 1s and 0s too, you're right - and that's why Amazon gives you 5 gigs free. If you want more, obviously there's a cost involved. They can't support millions of customers each wanting a terabyte of storage for nothing.

    Remember when television was free? We just had to put up with advertisements, and for that, we got free TV. Now many people pay 79 bucks a month or more to get cable or satellite TV.
    Nothing has changed. Over-the-air broadcasts are still available for free. It's called an antenna. They may seem quaint, but Best Buy still sells them. If you want premium content, you pay for it.

    Of course companies like Amazon and Apple are not in it for your convenience, they're in it because if everyone eventually has all their files stored online in the cloud, there's TONS and TONS of money to be made- for ever. If I have a computer, phone or music listening device with ample amounts of storage space, these companies don't make any money off of me after I purchase that music from itunes or wherever. (And if I have cds or blu ray movies, they don't make any money on me at all). This cloud concept provides some convenience, but more importantly guarantees a steady flow of income for these companies for many years to come.
    Well first of all, if you buy a Blu-ray disc from Amazon, they're still taking their cut. So saying they make "no money at all" from that is inaccurate. But again, they are offering you physical storage space that is available 24/7 from wherever you are. Why would you expect that to be free? That's just a ridiculous mentality. The prices they're asking aren't very expensive, either. How much do you spend on your cable bill every month? Your phone bill? People just think it's ridiculous to spend money on music because avenues have popped up where you can get it for free. (Why buy the CD when I can just watch it on YouTube?). Just because something is available somewhere for free doesn't mean it's worthless. Amazon is providing a service. That service comes with a fee. If you don't think it's worth it, don't buy it... but I think your expectations are pretty misplaced.

    Flash memory storage capacities are growing yearly.. and prices are continuing to drop. Now companies are starting to ship secure digital cards with capacities of a staggering 128 GB on a tiny compact flash card! Ultimately I think most people will be able to have enormous amounts of files locally on their own phone or portable computer.
    Sure they can. That isn't the point of this, though. I have 2 computers at home, a laptop, a phone that has storage, a DVR, even my Xbox can store music files. But what a pain in the ass it is to share between them all. Do I want to use up 80 gigs of my laptop's internal drive just to take all of my music with me when I travel? Do I want duplicate copies of everything I own on all of these different devices just to make sure the one thing I'm looking for at any particular moment is there no matter what? Good grief, no. Yes of course I will keep A backup of all of my files on a local system - I'm not trusting anything ONLY to the cloud - but now there's a way to access my music (or any other kind of file, for that matter) wherever I go, quickly and easily. Sure, it's not much different than dropbox except that it's cheaper and less complicated. How nice to be able to visit my parents, or go on vacation, or be at a friend's house, log on to their computer, and have my entire music library instantly available at my fingertips. It makes a lot of sense to me.





    gugy
    Aug 7, 03:09 PM
    Nice machine indeed.
    Good job Apple.
    I would buy one in a heartbeat with Adobe apps were universal. Oh well, just wait for next year. Plus is always safe to get the rev.b for this Intel MacPro.

    Love Leopard!
    More things coming next week?





    toddybody
    Mar 28, 10:31 AM
    im the opposite, this would be devastating to me as my contract runs out June this year......




    slu
    Aug 11, 09:50 AM
    its always next tuesday isnt it?

    here is to getting up early on tuesday morning, dragging my ass to the computer, and going to store.apple.com to be disappointed by the lack of the promise to be back within the hour.

    Unless you are waiting to buy, what do you care? Why get up early? If there are updates, they will be there at the regular time you get up. And if there are not, you won't have gotten up early for nothing. Now that I think about it, why get up early even if you are buying? They will still take your order when you get up.

    That being said, if true, this is great news. Apple computers will now be updated much faster than they used to be. People should feel better about buying now, because they should know that the next update is AWLAYS only a couple of months away. You know it is coming and there is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well buy when you need it. If you keep waiting for the next best thing, you'll always be waiting.

    And please, for the love of all things holy, retire the Powerbook G5 "joke". It never was funny and it certainly isn't funny now.



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