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Bitmap All the Things

posted by martyb on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-bits-Я-belong-to-us dept.

Tyler Pitchford writes:

In May, Google made international headlines when it announced that it was going to offer free, unlimited storage for photos and videos. If you read Google's press release, you'll see that the free storage plan limits images to 16 megapixels and videos to 1080p resolution. But if digital images are simply collections of binary data and if all other files on your computer also just collections of binary data then isn't unlimited photo storage simply unlimited storage?

If only something existed that made this easy to do; you know, something that could bitmap all the things....

[ Ed's Comment: This link points to the author's own personal software solution, but I'm sure that others will come up with alternative ideas.]

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:23AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:23AM (#202290)

    999999999999 movies in the Cloud
    Take one Down, stream it around
    999999999999 movies in the Cloud
    DMCA, DMCA, DMCA all day
    still 999999999999 movies in the Cloud

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