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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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Never use "etc." -- it makes people think there is more where there is not
or that there is not space to list it all, etc.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Sunday June 28 2015, @01:24AM
takes about 3 tar files renamed to jpg or whatever and I've backed up all the stuff I care about.
/ don't take many pictures
// nor videos
/// those 3 tar files have some 30 years of computing in them
//// minus MP3s, pictures, and video of course.
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday June 28 2015, @11:57AM
How many bytes are those .tar files on?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:50PM
I imagine they will validate the images by decoding them in memory before accepting them.