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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) by McD on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:54PM

    by McD (540) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:54PM (#203329)

    Is this the next great file sharing tool? No, I think not either. I accidentally wrote one of those about 10 years ago (it was still open and called Azureus when I created it),

    No kidding?

    Well then let me take this off-topic opportunity to say thank you - I used Azureus a bit, right up until it turned south.

    Can't buy you a beer, but I can make a donation to SN's upkeep in your honor. Cheers!

  • (Score: 1) by tripstah on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:30PM

    by tripstah (4913) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @02:30PM (#203779) Homepage

    No kidding, and ++ to you sir!

    Best,
    Tyler