You're confusing the fasted way through a corner vs the fastest way around the track. I'm well aware of sacrificing corner speed to set up for fastest entry speed (end of stright-a-way) or fastest exit speed (start of stright-a-way) or compound corners where one part is more important than another. I've raced on real tracks and understand how all that works but that is not the same as the fastest way around a single corner.

As a side issue there was one practice track with a fast left hand sweeper that led into a sharp 90 degree left hand turn. I was coaching a motorcycle racing team at the time and they couldn't understand why I was able to pass them in that corner even though my motorcyle was heavier and half the horsepower they had. They slowed down at the end of the sweep so they could make the 90 turn. I told them I gave my bike more throttle at the end of the sweep which both slowed me down and aimed me for the 90. They had to try it for themselves to see how more throttle can act as brakes and steering.

I've thought about it, I've read books about racing and traction and most important I've used it sucessfully on a race track.

Wrong again. If they weren't getting traction you would be off the road. The traction is being split between forward and lateral forces. Using it all for lateral traction (cornering) means you aren't using all you can for forward traction. Think vector forces. The more the back end swings out and is still being powered that directional force is towards the center of the corner thereby increasing the corning force.

Done wrong, drifting can slow you down in a corner but done right it is faster. Watch closely next time you see formula 1 cars racing. Every car drifts almost every corner. The drift isn't very obvious on the fast corners but is quite noticeable on the slower, sharp corners.

When you are steering using just that right touch on the throttle it's a thrill like no other. And you get to pass all those other amatures who haven't figured it out yet.

Actually no. Sliding all four wheels through a corner, known as a four wheel drift, is the fasted way through a corner. The front wheels are only partially steering but most of the steering is done with the throttle making the rear wheels slide more or less than the front thereby changing the direction of the car.

It is also done on motorcycles except that's called a two wheel drift. It's difficult but is done by the pros all the time.

I held an amature racing license for a few years and got to do this stuff on a race track.

Driving at the limits of traction, traction control would almost certainly cause a crash.

Linkedin suggests numerous names of people I know but have never exchanged emails with. It even suggested the name of my kid's girlfriend and kid's last name doesn't match mine and we have no common links on linkedin. I've limited my links to old co-workers from AT no family, no friends. There is no possible way they could have accessed my email because it requries an ssh login to a firewall server with a different userid and password, then an ssh connection to the mail server with yet another password. Those passwords are also different than my linkedin password. I'm not on any social media sites except linkedin and slashdot. Neither my slashdot name nor password matchs linkedin name or password. There has to be some data mining going on but it's not through email and not through any other social media. I have noticed that others from the companies I've worked for shown up in the suggestions including people I've never met. I'm not sure why they keep suggesting Texas people who worked for AT&T when I've only been in Michigan. It looks like they could have gotten my email contact list but I know they couldn't have. So I'm thinking that others seeing their email contacts show up might just be mistaken on how linkedin got the names.

he has sacrificed more A bank robber who gets killed during the robbery sacrifices a lot, he lost his life and his future. Does that automatically make the bank robber a Patriot? Of course not.

The difference is that the bank robber is doing his thing for his own benefite whereas Snowden gets no benefit, all the benefit goes to his countrymen.

I've got one program that runs on DOS. It's been running continously since 1995 (24x365). The only crashes are when power goes out and it comes back from those crashes with no corruption and no need for a manual restart. When power comes back it just picks up where it went down. My Linux systems don't have that kind of uptime. If it weren't for hardware becoming hard to get I would keep it on DOS. It's a nice simple OS that does what it's told to do.

Some of us have been eating insects for as long as we have owned motorcycles.

"If only because their helmsmen are required, by law, to maximise shareholder value."

This shows up on almost every discussion of companies. It is false. There is no legal requirement for management to maximise the value of the company or maximise the share price. Management would have to do something really, really obviously deliberately bad for the company before anyone would have a chance of a legal recourse. Merely bankrupting the company with rediculous lawsuits (ala SCO) isn't going to get management into legal trouble. Shareholders might sue but that's a different issue.

Any of the Martin Gardner books would be good but I don't know if they are still in print.

I thought the main reason to use java was to be OS independent. When your web page on Linux couldn't handle the load you could just move your code to a bigger Solaris or IBM box. Or when the PHB says he doesn't trust BSD to be secure he can move it all to Windows.

I've not worked with c#. Is it multiplatform like java or are you stuck with running it on Windows?

Yes, I have no problem reading two of the examples at wikipedia. The fully reversed paragraph wasn't readable.

My apologies. The post was written as 6 text paragraphs which became one paragraph when I posted it as html.

Labels can be an issue. I am dsylexic and have met other dsylexics. Being labeled dsylexic is almost like being labeled stupid. I was lucky that no one figured it out until late enough in my life that the label didn't bother me. A dsylexic thinks different than "normal" people. A lot of my thinking is 3D visualization. While in high school I was getting some training in patternmaking. The dsylexica made that job so easy I was doing stuff that my trainer couldn't understand. Once when I walked into the boss' office (the trainer) he was on the phone telling a customer that he couldn't make the part they wanted. The blue print was on the desk in front of me and a two second glance at it let me figure out why he thought it couldn't be made and that I could make it. So right at the end of him saying "it can't be made" I quietly said "I can make it." He was used to me by then and said into the phone "I just had an idea. Let me get back to you." After I explained how I can make it, he still didn't understand it. He asked me if I were sure I could make it. I said yes and we bid and got the job. I had no problem making the pattern. So I'm color blind, dsylexic and have the signs of an aspie. Those issues have caused me problems at times but they also helped me do things normal people can't do. The issue is that the label is often considered to be a negitive trait rather than just a different way of thinking. The aspie traits made me a good sysadmin and a good coder though it made dating very difficult. The dsylexia made me a good patternmaker but makes spelling and balancing a check book almost impossible. The color blindness makes it easy for me to see through camouflage which is useful in hunting or war but makes wiring a network cable very difficult. Beware the label.