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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday June 28 2015, @09:07AM
15 years ago?
On April 1 2004, only 11 years and 3 months ago, gmail launched. At the time, yahoo, hotmail etc offered 10 or 20MB. That wasn't exactly a lot in 1994, let alone 2004. Google announced they would give everyone 1GB for free. It was on the front page of the Evening Standard, and I remember laughing at the office about how they'd been fooled by such an april fools.
A few days later, things like gmail drive (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm) and fuse plugins (http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2004/09/01/google_gmail_as_a_linux_file_system.html) appeared.