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Going to the past, the SE had images of the teams that worked on the Mac. Hit the interrupt switch and type "G 41D89A".

When googling for the exact string, I found this page with more eggs from the old days: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7933/mac.html

What's necessary for a patent is that a novel way to solve the problem is invented. It must be described in principle, but there need not be a working model or prototype.

Patent aplications used to need a working model.

Falcon

Ok, jerk. I said it was as single link out of many, here is some more reading for your hand-waving ass.

7th paragraph
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/troy/4399/

5th paragraph
http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=23254

1st paragraph
http://cocktails.about.com/od/history/a/prohibition_3.htm

4th paragraph
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2006862

7th paragraph (along with a chart)
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/miron.prohibition.alcohol

I can do this all day. There is that much proof that you are incorrect. If you would like to continue to look like an absolute fool, feel free.

...Barracude by Heart is a confusing $1.29 (must have been an expensive song to produce)...

Ann Wilson went off of her diet.

(yes, that was mean, but: before, and after...just saying)

You're not breaking any laws of thermodynamics.

See Autogiro boats.

http://uk.geocities.com/fnsnclr@btinternet.com/yachts/auto/hist1.htm

You win a prize!

How the hell are you supposed to see the ponies if you don't have a graphical browser? ASCII art? There aren't any ASCII ponies, and if I have my way there never will be.

DOWN WITH ASCII PONIES!!!

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/farm.htm#horse

This craft reminds me of the early Michael Moorcock SF story The Ice Schooner:

Although part of the general repackaging of Moorcock's fantasy output around the Eternal Champion theme, The Ice Schooner is not really that closely linked to the other novels. Having a hero and a quest is not really enough; there are few novels in the genre by any author which would share these common elements.

The much revised novel is set in a future Ice Age, so severe that oceans of ice cover almost the entire surface of the Earth. On these frozen wastes sail great ship-like wind powered sledges, hunting the land whales evolved from the sea creatures of our own time. Konrad Arflane is captain of such a vessel fallen on hard times until he rescues a dying man out on the remote ice. He turns out to be the ruler of an important city, but more relevantly to the plot, he gives Arflane a quest, to find the fabled lost city of New York, a vision, in his daughter, and a ship, a great ice schooner, to captain.

Actually, he does like toast!
http://www.geocities.com/DanHiggins3/toastcontent/dwarftoast.html

I've been kicking around the idea of dynamic relational for a couple of years now. We have dynamic application languages, so why not dynamic databases? The "static" and the dynamic kind serve different needs and can coexist. Why should DB's be any different?

You mean this?

http://uk.geocities.com/vortx_productions/VORTX_GRAPHICS/Adventure2000/2000AD_cartoon.jpg

More precisely, if the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus in a certain measurement, then the particle's response (to be pedantic--the universe's response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe.

If the experimenter can freely choose the directions in which to orient his apparatus, then their actions are not "determined" by the entire previous history of the universe. The experimenter is part of the universe near the particle, so universe near the particle is not determined. Congratulations, it's a tautology.

That's it's not immediately recognized is because the one of the confusions that results in the whole free will versus determinism brou-ha-ha: the mistaken belief that the observer is somehow separate from the observed.

The other confusion is the question of what "determined" means. We think of it was fated, pre-destined. We still carry around this notion of a Newtonian clockwork universe, that given the initial configuration of the universe you could apply a simple set of laws to figure out the state today. We worry that the universe is losslessly compressible to that set of laws plus initial conditions. Once the-powers-that-be flipped the switch it was all fated, so they really need not have bothered, so where's that leave us?

But the universe is not compressible, not without loss. There is no fully comprehensive model of the cosmos that is simpler than the cosmos itself, no way to tell what an individual particle is going to do at time T other than to run the entire universe up to and including time t. You can't even run it up to t minus epsilon and they say, oh, it'll definitely do X. The damn universe keeps producing new information, in the algorithmic sense of the word. And you're part of it! It's like that Kilgore Trout story, "Now It Can Be Told" -- not even the creator of the universe knew what the man was going to say next.

Accept Cthulhu now while there is still time.

I very much doubt someone will hijack the space shuttle to take out the Empire State building. If someone did build an extra-large rocket, the government will be harassing them anyway.

You can even make the "My Computer" zone configurable - if you decide htm files that you load locally shouldn't be so trusted and running stuff like javascript (it kind of breaks some explorer stuff unless you are in classic mode).

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555599

Or even add zones.

See:
http://www.geocities.com/uzipaz/eng/fifthzone.html
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569

However doing that might break NET 1.1

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837214

IE's zone security is actually better than what Firefox has. With firefox you only get something like security zones if the plugin provides it, and then it typically only applies to that plugin.

For some reason which has not been well explained imo, (the official FOX claim is that Joss chose to make the changes), the original episode he created was axed at the last moment and was cobbled together with new material to completely alter things and stretch the material over several episodes.

This was a pretty huge blow.

I hunted around and found a copy of the script for the original first episode, and I thought is was very strong compared to the episode which got aired. I've uploaded a copy of it here. . .

First Dollhouse Script

The show feels a bit cut & pasted at the moment, but the themes are very strong. Read the script and see what you think.

-FL

This story reminds me of "Long-Term Capital Management" story back in the late 1990's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

These guys did the EXACT same thing using computer models to predict what funds they should be investing in so that they never have a loss ...

Unfortunately, they were bailed out, but folded in 2000.

http://www.geocities.com/eureka/concourse/8751/jurus/hf100203.htm

There was a PBS special about these guys and the computer models they used.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2704stockmarket.html

Meet my page on Geocities: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1108/

Since given to another VW Passat enthusiast... we spent hours answering emails, hanging out in #volkswagen and comparing the performance of this mod or that mod. Ugh, to think of the time wasted... if I had spent that time making an online dating site or something I'd be rich!

Atlantis was laid out on a circular pattern, not a square/rectangular one. Duh! ;)

Alright, I'm calling your bluff: link to one GeoCities page worth our time.

http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/

Pretty clever... and no clashing-colour or non-scrolling-starfield background in sight!

At the same time, it's hardly topical and doesn't exactly counter the notion that nothing on GeoCities has been updated since the year 2000... :-)

http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/

If the editors aren't even able to spot the obvious errors or even invoke a spell checker it eventually becomes obvious to even normal people that the editors probably aren't there any more. If an article isn't even spell checked it probably wasn't fact checked any better.

Mainstream news editors seem to serve mostly to fuck stories up. (I use this as my example because I'm quoted in it.) That particular article is a gentle example - we'll never see this sort of thing presented for an important story. They don't let people who would do this write those. Even so they changed the article substantially to demonize and sensationalize. In they process they actually made it less grammatically correct.

Thank your lucky stars you've never met a drop bear.

"If several people came forward to say that the IWF had blocked, for example, their photographs of nudist children (which are not illegal), then it might undermine support for the IWF blacklisting system and for their mission in general."

An image is "child porn" in the UK if it offends against "the recognised standards of propriety", even to a minor extent. In other words, images are illegal if they are offensive to the jury (who are considered able to "apply the recognised standards of propriety"), and some juries have found nudist photographs to be illegal. Such juries include those in R v Graham-Kerr (1988), R v Mould (2000) and R v O'Carroll (2003). Those cases are notable for reasons other than the fact that a person was convicted for possessing nudist material and should threfore not be seen as anomolies as regards the nature of the offending material.

As I have said before, the IWF is not solely to blame for blocking access to pages which contain photographs of nude children; the issue is that the UK has a law which criminalises the possession of images which a random group of people find to be morally offensive. On the other hand, if the IWF didn't deliberately mislead people into believing that indecent images are always "child abuse images", people wouldn't be so shocked when they find that photographs of nude children are labelled as child pornography and therefore blocked.

"If several people came forward to say that the IWF had blocked, for example, their photographs of nudist children (which are not illegal), then it might undermine support for the IWF blacklisting system and for their mission in general."

An image is "child porn" in the UK if it offends against "the recognised standards of propriety", even to a minor extent. In other words, images are illegal if they are offensive to the jury (who are considered able to "apply the recognised standards of propriety"), and some juries have found nudist photographs to be illegal. Such juries include those in R v Graham-Kerr (1988), R v Mould (2000) and R v O'Carroll (2003). Those cases are notable for reasons other than the fact that a person was convicted for possessing nudist material and should threfore not be seen as anomolies as regards the nature of the offending material.

As I have said before, the IWF is not solely to blame for blocking access to pages which contain photographs of nude children; the issue is that the UK has a law which criminalises the possession of images which a random group of people find to be morally offensive. On the other hand, if the IWF didn't deliberately mislead people into believing that indecent images are always "child abuse images", people wouldn't be so shocked when they find that photographs of nude children are labelled as child pornography and therefore blocked.

technically it's a dupe.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/2043206

Why do you hate us? Can't you just let us have our fun?

(although I guess you are technically correct, which, after all, is the best kind of correct).

One of those pictures shows the "Wolfe Creek": http://www.geocities.com/zlipanov/impact_craters/wolfe_creek-australia.jpg, which is a "relatively well-preserved crater that is partly buried under wind blown sand. The crater is situated in the flat desert plains of north-central Australia. Its crater rim rises ~25 meters above the surrounding plains and the crater floor is ~50 meters below the rim. Oxidized remnants of iron meteoritic material as well as some impact glass have been found"

Damn! If someone would just pickup that really weird guy who's been killing hikers, I bet we could do some REAL science there!

One of those pictures shows the "Wolfe Creek": http://www.geocities.com/zlipanov/impact_craters/wolfe_creek-australia.jpg, which is a "relatively well-preserved crater that is partly buried under wind blown sand. The crater is situated in the flat desert plains of north-central Australia. Its crater rim rises ~25 meters above the surrounding plains and the crater floor is ~50 meters below the rim. Oxidized remnants of iron meteoritic material as well as some impact glass have been found"

However, it does not retain anything like a dome, or, a droplet frozen in action due to heat... And, the steep rim to the crater floor shows no major signs of erosion. Next explanation, please.

What is the catch behind 60 Mbps service? (Keep in mind, that cable TV itself is a 100 Mbps service.) Are there services that will be lost? Ports blocked? Contracts with MPAA/RIAA under the table? Or is Paul Allen and St. Louis Charter GM Steve Trippe on their way to Barbados with a corporate bonus they do not deserve?

Charter has dropped nearly ALL local public access programming. You want to have a show on public access? Good Luck with that.

Due to conflicts with the Belo Corporation, local CBS affiliate KMOV is still not available in HD as February 17 rapidly approaches.

Make the engine, upon which the winning succinct byte code runs, a new W3C standard browser programming language (or at least virtual machine) and reduce the Microsoft OS CD to those components required to create a web-delivered application platform using the winning engine. Such an engine would, of course, have some features that dynamically encached expansions (and/or "memoizations") similar to the Hotspot optimization technology that originated with the Self programming language (and was later adopted by Sun's Java Virtual Machine). Hence it would make sense to have the OS CD contain a partially pre-expanded/optimized code base.

Then, for delivery of software services to pre-existing platforms, create a legacy port of the services code to pre-existing W3C standards like XForms implemented in a downloadable ECMAScript Client/SOA library in a manner similar to the way TIBET(tm) does. The idea is to go "Live", ie: web-delivered, with a fundamentally new W3C base (whatever engine won the prize) but support legacy W3C environments for migration.

Again, this prize-oriented strategy would, of course, require a rigorous specification of the software services so the testing could be largely automated.

This approach addresses Microsoft's 2 biggest problems deriving from the same fundamental reality: Everyone has needed their OS to interoperate with the bulk of the information industry.

The first problem is ethical and really goes beyond the scope of my professional opinions to my public opinions about the support of property rights. Suffice to say, I have no trouble with someone who goes after a natural monopoly position and succeeds. I have a problem with someone who then refuses to use that position of success to fix the bug in the society that made them inordinately rich and their technology inordinately influential.

The second problem is technical, which is what my argument here is really all about.

Basically Microsoft's code bloat problem derives from its monopoly position. This may seem like a truism since all of the software "profession" suffers from code bloat, but only Microsoft can take this to monopolistic proportions -- proportions that make Ma Bell's monopolistic complexities of yore look Spartan.

So Microsoft has this problem and it has many programmers (contributing to the code-bloat problem). It also has mountains of cash.

So how can Microsoft bust its own monopoly position turning its many programmers (many newly laid off!) and mountains of cash into succinct code?

Monetary Incentives for the Programmers. For example, the original idea for the Hutter Prize was:

S = size of uncompressed corpus
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed corpus
R = S/P (the compression ratio).

Award monies in a manner similar to the M-Prize:

Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X

Fund contains: $Z at the time of the new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))

Something similar can be done with the size of the binary that passes the entire suite of tests for Microsoft's software suite.

What happens very rapidly is the programmers first apply their skills to maximally refactoring. What falls out is a series of legacy API layers written atop a tight core.

They'd have to spend more money on code testing to verify the compressed code-bases of the competing teams actually worked to spec but the results should be quite gratifying.

This brings up an interesting idea. What if the ramdisk function was moved into the motherboard chipset?

OMFG! That's an AMAZING idea! This could dramatically change computing as we know it! The implications of this are, eh, well....
 
.... quite well understood. Somebody thought of this many years ago. Many, many, many years ago. It's called a (ahem) "ram disk" and uses system memory as if it were a drive with a software driver. Here's a howto for Linux - I did something similar with so-called "high memory" on a 80286 with DOS 3.x and ramdrive.sys - that 384k ram disk was small, but //FAST//!!!

Sorry to break the news to you.

Well thats plainly wrong! Beta has/had a higher bandwidth, thus it was capable of a better picture (more lines).

See http://www.geocities.com/videoholic2000/BetaBetter.html or even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-VHS

So betamax was better. But VHS won the format war anyway.

Well, here's a picture to get you started. And here's a description of one related incident.

As for your logic, back away, before you even start on the opposing forces in this Greenie Vs Anti-Greenie situation, this is slashdot. Unless your logic comes in the form of a car analogy, it might well be lost in your words.

Personally I prefer the term "Paver" to "Anti-Greenie". Plus this sort of fulfills the car analogy logic you mention.

http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1380/pave.html

THE CREED (tm) of the PAVERS (traditional version)

We believe in a completely Paved Earth.

                Earth is cursed with trees, shrubs, grass,
                and scurrying creatures. With every breath
                We act to right this terrible wrong.

We believe in The Plan (tm).

                The Plan (tm) is the final word; it brings us
                the knowledge of the twin pleasures:
                Speed and Convenience.

We believe food should be enjoyed.

                "Nutrition" is an aberration of human nature.
                The juicy Burger and hearty Beer are Our sacrament.

We believe in the Depletion of scarce natural resources.

                Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as
                half-empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh.

We believe in a sky roiling with Smog.

                The color blue should appear nowhere but the paint
                on Our HyperCars (tm).
 

The energy payback is within the first hour of use.

I figure you can fit in ~300000 CFL bulbs in a container.

http://www.google.com/search?q=12022mm+*+2352+mm+*+2395+mm+%2F+(1.7in+*+1.7in+*+4.4in)&btnG=Search

Wikipedia says it takes 85MW to bring a certain class of container ship up to speed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship

One limit on ship size is the "Suezmax" standard, or the largest theoretical ship capable of passing through the Suez Canal, which measures 14,000 TEU. Such a vessel would displace 137,000 metric tons deadweight (DWT), be 400 meters long, more than 50 meters wide, have a draft of nearly 15 metres, and use more than 85 MW (113,987hp) to achieve 25.5 knots,

Which works out to 1/50th of a watt per bulb. Thats such a small number, trying to calculate the cruising energy seems fruitless...

http://www.google.com/search?q=85MW+%2F+14000+%2F+300000

there was an obvious direction in place subsequent to the space race (remember the Apollo program?) that would have been followed through to space industrialization had the launch service industry enjoyed the same protection from government competition that the satellite industry enjoyed:

* (c) Private enterprise; access; competition

In order to facilitate this development and to provide for the widest possible participation by private enterprise, United States participation in the global system shall be in the form of a private corporation, subject to appropriate governmental regulation. It is the intent of Congress that all authorized users shall have nondiscriminatory access to the system; that maximum competition be maintained in the provision of equipment and services utilized by the system; that the corporation created under this chapter be so organized and operated as to maintain and strengthen competition in the provision of communications services to the public; and that the activities of the corporation created under this chapter and of the persons or companies participating in the ownership of the corporation shall be consistent with the Federal antitrust laws.

http://www.presageinc.com/contents/experience/satellitereform/contents/briefingbook/technology/1962act.pdf

It wasn't until 1990, when a coalition of grassroots groups across the country lobbied hard for 3 years, that similar legislation got passed for launch services.

http://www.geocities.com/jim_bowery/testimny.htm

The fact that Malthusian paradigm didn't follow the Club of Rome model doesn't change the reality of the Malthusian paradigm given a fundamentally limited biosphere undergoing its largest extinction event in 60 million years. The Club of Rome merely added academic fashion to the urgency of the Malthusian situation still facing the biosphere. The 1970s was the right time to start the drive for space industrialization based on a private launch service industry. It didn't happen, the pioneering culture that founded the US is being replaced by government policy with less pioneering cultures and now we're all facing some increasingly obvious difficulties -- not just pioneer American stock -- and not just humans.

The cost of getting silicon into space from the lunar surface would be orders of magnitude less than launching from earth due not only to the much shallower gravity well but also due to the absence of atmosphere.

No beanstalk needed.

At worst a Dyneema Rotovator would be needed but probably not even that.

First, the bulk of the materials are manufactured in space from lunar raw material transported to orbital facilities so you don't need to land those facilities on the lunar surface, and you don't have to worry about g-loading the raw materials you are sending to the orbital facilities.

Second, you don't manufacture everything in space -- only bulky materials like solar cells, reflectors, structural members and perhaps klystrons. Only residual materials (raw and manufactured) are of terrestrial origin.

Third, the facility you do put on the lunar surface is there primarily to transport raw mater

I beg to differ, energy to mass converstion is entirely possible.

Hey - Nicaraguan CIA style sounds like the way to go.

I'm in the same boat. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2002. I only held one programming position for six months and there wasn't much for me to do there. I'm a very adept programmer, and I wrote the core code for a 3d fighting MMOG(ALL it needs is art and content). My resume is here.

This simply isn't true. Islam was founded by a paedophile, who fucked a 9 year old "because allah told him to". He also comitted genocide. As a result children are being sold "into marriage", subsequently forced into sex, in a few dozen of those oppresive regimes, including iran, saudi arabia, egypt ...

And nobody gives a fuck. Even thinking this makes islam an unacceptable ideology, thinking advocating childrape should carry consequences, and is a crime by itself, is considered thoughtcrime, even by many slashdot posters.

So let's not pretend "progressive" slashdot is for childporn censorship. As soon as you dress up child abuse as a religion, it's given a free pass. Muslims get to advocate child rape, even publish manuals on the subject in the united states (search for the book by khomeini, or the muslim "holy books" which have a number of tips on having sex with underage girls). Nor does google censor either the hadith (with the childporn and jewkilling tips) or ideology.

All these helpful islamic "holy" child abuse tips and jew-killing hints were found using google. Clearly child rape and jewkilling is perfectly acceptable ... just say it's a "religion" that's not being "tolerated".

So don't forget islamic childrape and islamic jewhatred is good. After all, going against islamic childrape and islamic jewhatred is "intolerant".

Are we insane or what ?

Development casts are "sunk costs" - but if yu include them, your shuttle missions come out to $1.5 billion per launch. - and that's in 1996 dollars.

Additionally, the half-billion per shuttle launch was based on 8 missions a year. The shuttle doesn't do 8 missions a year - many years, it does ZERO.

The Saturn series is, by your own calculations, 1/3 the cost per pound.

Several AIAA papers delivered in recent years discuss reviving the Saturn V. For example, AIAA paper 92-1546, "Launch Vehicles for the Space Exploration Initiative". This paper concluded that a revived Saturn V was actually cheaper than the NLS vehicle.

The shuttle costs have only increased since then.

Additionally, there were plans to upgrade the Saturn V to give it SRBs and an LEO capability of 1,100,000 pounds. - over 40x the capacity of the shuttle. In other words, 3 launches would have replaced the ENTIRE 118-launch space shuttle program.

The shuttle set NASA back 2 decades or more.

Do you see an alternative in the heavy fright industry to natural gas? Mr. Picken's whole point is that you can't drive an 18 wheeler with electric (battery) technology

Mmmh, I was always wondering what they were doing with these things:
http://www.geocities.com/joachimbiemann/pb/hgk-145a.jpg
but yeah you must be right that can't use those for the heavy fright industry

This is a page from the past! http://www.geocities.com/free_bobafett/main.htm Bobafett was one such person who released several versions of one of the more popular cheating tools of the day.

It is a good thing they didn't try to rip off DIAMOND DAVE!

I would disagree. I wrote a commercially successful program for the VIC-20, which had the same BASIC as the C-64, and I found that I could not port it to the Atari 400 or TI-99 because their BASIC interpreters were too restrictive. The C-64 interpreter, which was written by a nerdy guy named Bill Gates, allowed a lot of space-saving tricks that made my program possible. Using all these tricks made the code nearly impossible to read, but who cares? Sacrificing readability for functionality is a no-brainer. This page" contains the code for one of the two programs that made up my product. It is the only Assembler ever written for such a small program space (3583 bytes), making it the smallest assembler ever written.

I have always considered it my best hack and there is a little more about it here.

I would disagree. I wrote a commercially successful program for the VIC-20, which had the same BASIC as the C-64, and I found that I could not port it to the Atari 400 or TI-99 because their BASIC interpreters were too restrictive. The C-64 interpreter, which was written by a nerdy guy named Bill Gates, allowed a lot of space-saving tricks that made my program possible. Using all these tricks made the code nearly impossible to read, but who cares? Sacrificing readability for functionality is a no-brainer. This page" contains the code for one of the two programs that made up my product. It is the only Assembler ever written for such a small program space (3583 bytes), making it the smallest assembler ever written.

I have always considered it my best hack and there is a little more about it here.

I_Voter
A number of years ago, I typed out and published on the web, the following copyright expired article. Read it if you think that I oppose "democratic" government manipulation of the economy. It's been getting a lot of hits lately. It may be one of the earliest suggestions that lack of demand by consumers can cause or sustain an economic crisis. This humorous story published in 1897 is much earlier than John Maynard Keynes, and his "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" published in 1936.
The Parable of the Water-Tank
published by Edward Bellamy in 1897
http://www.geocities.com/stewjackmail/parable.html

And people have said that as I have kids (got 'em) and get older, I'll start believing in God, too. Still hasn't happened.

Perpetual copyright is bad for society. People older than you (and much smarter) realize that unlimited copyright is detrimental to society because it limits the sharing of ideas. Limited copyright is necessary for some people to be encouraged to create. But creation happens even absent copyright, so it's clearly not something that's required for creation of art and literature.

If you can't copy, you can't create. Hell, just your COBOL editor is copying from dozens of other editors. If those ideas were locked up under copyright ("a white text box", "split screens"), you wouldn't have a product. Was your first program not "Hello World" in some form or another? Oh, wait... you copied that, too. And from there, you built up other things. Why would you deny that opportunity to other people?

Copyright exists to allow people to profit from novel works... locking them up perpetually stagnates creativity. If you don't get that, you're either stupid or just ignorant.

Three Wiis? With twelve, I could set up a Beowulf Cluster and run Linux to calculate Pi to the 50 billionth decimal place!

The 50 billionth decimal place of pi is 2. (Source: http://www.geocities.com/hjsmithh/Pi/Record51.html)

Such an engine would, of course, have some features that dynamically encached expansions (and/or "memoizations") similar to the Hotspot optimization technology that originated with the Self programming language (and was later adopted by Sun's Java Virtual Machine). Hence it would make sense to have the OS CD contain a partially pre-expanded/optimized code base.

In other words, one might, by going to a smaller but higher level of description, end up with an even larger binary image.

But there is something more important at stake in compiling from the highest level of description here:

Clarity.