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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 Geotti on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:48AM

    by Geotti (1146) on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:48AM (#202330) Journal

    but it was effectively a cloud-hosted backup of all his important files, before cloud hosting became a "thing."

    FTFY.
    "The Cloud" (or Butt, if you prefer) is essentially just elastic grid computing [wikipedia.org]. The mail server you referred to, however, was most probably either a single machine or a small cluster [wikipedia.org].
    (Just nitpicking here, but these concepts are often confused and this is Soylent, so here we go.)

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  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:51AM

    by Geotti (1146) on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:51AM (#202332) Journal

    Pardon me please, I should have pressed preview.
    There was supposed to be a link to explain Elasticity [wikipedia.org] in cloud computing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @04:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @04:16PM (#202868)

    FTFY

    I've now read the original and the "fixed" text several times, and I am honestly unable to find any difference.

    • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Monday June 29 2015, @07:58PM

      by Geotti (1146) on Monday June 29 2015, @07:58PM (#202977) Journal

      Was supposed to be:

      but it was effectively a cloud-hosted backup of all his important files, before cloud hosting became a "thing."

      Dunno what was the matter with me on that day ;)