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Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+
An anonymous reader writes with a report that Google yesterday announced at its I/O conference a photo-storage site known as Google Photos. Says the article: The new service is completely separate from Google+, something Google users have been requesting for eons. Google is declaring that Google Photos lets you backup and store "unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free." It's a bit creepy to see all the photos that Google still has on tap, including many that I've since deleted on my phone.
That's what spy agencies do. They keep your photos for 20 years after you've already forgotten about them, and then POW. When you step out of line and vote for the wrong person or support the wrong cause, they'll dredge them back up, and blackmail you on the basis that you were sitting together in the same bar as a known bad guy one day while you were both in college.
TANSTAAFL.
I'd rather just use Flickr or write my own little CMS. Google, you're a bloated, shitty company now. You release flop after flop and have ruined or killed all your older good products. Your social hubris has humiliated your reputation. 10 years ago I'd be excited about this news. Now I simply don't even care.
Backup...using a Google service? I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you. Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.
It's stupid anyhow. These days you can buy a 128GB USB flash drive for like $30, which should hold a lot of pictures at full quality.
But it can't be (easily) automated. And USB flash drives are EVIL for backups - you should buy a HDD for that. With the auto-upload you have the photos backed up (and also ready to be sent to someone through any channel) in matter of seconds, without the need for any action you can forgot, delay, or whatever. A good backup solution doesn't require any activity from the user. And this is especially important if you want to backup your grandma's data.
Try the new Google maps, when you embed it, it now only has one view onto a map (rather than one view per embed) and any selected market is lost.
Switch between street view and maps view and the location your street view is gone.
Stuff is hidden, what your maps? You click the cursor on search, and wait and a little menu 'My Maps' will drop down.
Want to edit your maps? Well you have to switch to the original map then edit, and in that edit mode you lose Satellite view now.
It's shite.
Android they're only just adding fingerprint and multi-window, split keyboard, and USB file browsing, whereas Samsung has had these for years.
It still doesn't play nicely with network drives insisting you store your stuff in Google spy cloud.
Face it, they have jumped the shark.
Who the fuck are you? Go die in a fire, you disrespectful worthless turd.
Next you'll be shouting web developers down for not using an automated tool like Dreamweaver, or advocating driverless cars with no manual controls. Our forefathers and our freedom are closely connected, forget one, you may as well forget the other. Long live text only devices! Long live being able to connect from anywhere, with anything, and participate based on one's intellectual prowess rather than one's socio-economic status!
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Hello! I am a company offering unlimited storage for no cost, and with no strings attached.
Umm... no. Frankly, I'd rather pay someone just because then, at least there is a chance, that it is an honest deal.
Google is declaring that Google Photos lets you backup and store "unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free."
Thats until they're NOT.... Google has a VERY nasty habit of cranking up these spiffy services, running them for a while, getting everybody onboard
with them, then turning them off.... Stay away!! STAY FAR AWAY!!
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
So why can't Android just use fucking Samba?!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
What I'd be interested to see is if, and how aggressively, they take action against image collections that are not of any use for their desired purposes. They obviously can't be too capricious and unpredictable, or they'll spook users; but you can't offer 'unlimited' storage without making some provision for 'that guy who hacks together a FUSE filesystem that uses images uploaded to Google Photos as a storage medium' or the 'Cool, this will make my next time-lapse video project way easier' cases.(and, of course, if you are feeling particularly uncreative, /dev/random just needs a dash of formatting information to be as many bitmaps as you could possibly desire.)
Are they just going to go with the ISP-style 'I said unlimited; but I actually meant X photos or Y GB of traffic per month; apparently I'm allowed to get away with that, so STFU', are they going to have peons manually examine accounts whose size gets out of hand and decide what to do?
Their track record on removing useful and loved services for little or no reason should spook users well enough without playing games with the content.
I agree with calm down, but I also agree that it's stupid. When you put your text in monospace, what you are saying is "I am a special snowflake, so you should read this text even though it is more difficult than if I didn't set a special style that I only use because I am a hipster." So if that's how you want to come across, by all means, keep setting your comments in monospace. If you've set a flag that makes all your comments enter in monospace, then you're an extra-hipster.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"