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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: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 29 2015, @08:10AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday June 29 2015, @08:10AM (#202687) Homepage
    I approve of this kind of light-hearted abuse of a corporate giant like google.

    Are there any alternative services that you could use? If so, then you could store the file over multiple sites, using an error-correcting code, such that if one of the sites were to go down, the data would still be available. This is what the internet and the cloud was invented for!
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  • (Score: 1) by tripstah on Monday June 29 2015, @11:59AM

    by tripstah (4913) on Monday June 29 2015, @11:59AM (#202741) Homepage

    Amazon also allows bitmaps on their cloud service. The image portion is free for "prime" members and they supposedly they accept files up to 2GBs. That would work out to a 16,000 x 16,000 x RGBA bitmap.

    As for error correction, RAR includes parity information (it's one of the reasons I looped through it versus just splitting). By default B.A.T.T. encodes 10% parity information, but that's user configurable. If you want extra assurance, there's always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAR2 [wikipedia.org].