But then the volume of a pizza of thickness 'a' and radius 'z' wouldn't be 'pi z z a' it would be 'tau z z a / 2'.

And FWIW compiling with:

g++-fsf-4.4 smallpt.cpp -o smallpt -O3 -fopenmp -ffast-math -m64 -march=native -ftree-parallelize-loops=8 -funroll-all-loops

gives a runtime for smallpt 100 of 2m31s for my MacBook ("Early 2008" model).

One of the comments on the smallpt page recommends adding the following line:

if (depth > 100) return obj.e;

after line 55 in the code to prevent a stack overflow.

It seems to do the trick for me.

I am pretty sure I heard such a speech 10 years ago, before Java came out.

The first release of Java was in 1995.

And it's nice they way they expect you to carry your canoe across one of the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of your journey.

That was so not what I was hoping for when I followed a link labelled "Jamie Oliver's forehead hitting the nearest wall, over and over again".

... Apple doesn't provide service updates for anything older than 10.5 (2007)...

Check out: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

Apple released a security update for OS X 10.4 just 5 days ago.

OS X 10.4 was released in 2005.

... Microsoft's Poland ...

Wait. Microsoft have invaded Poland? I've got a bad feeling about this.

I know of no such "rule as used by Unix".

man expand

Like this?

I thought I wanted something like that - but in the end I went for a Garmin Foretrex 101 and a solar AAA battery charger.

It also has mini pci-e slots on the in side as well.

Excellent. Oh, hang on, I thought you said it had mince pie slots.

This is pilot error not a ridiculous software bug.

If you wanted them to see the same pages as you why didn't you send the document in some sort of Portable Document Format?

140 characters shouldn't be too much of a problem to get the nuances of an important news item across.

If they need more they can always use tweetdoubler.

Don't forget the British use feet for aviation

And I thought we used wings...