Characters and objects can be compressed down to incredibly small files.
Cookies are small files placed on the hard drives of Web site visitors, and are often used to capture data about online behavior for personalization and advertising purposes.
Once it was possible to compress songs into such small files, it was easy to store them en masse on a computer or a portable player.
Google and other advertising companies use cookies, which are small files that contain information about Web users, to show personalized ads as Internet users travel around the Web.
Drivers are small files that let Windows communicate with the hardware that's attached to it, but sometimes these driver files clash with each other.
These companies place small files known as cookies on the computers and phones of people who visit Web sites that display ads they bought.
When I think of the 90s, I remember waiting for 10 minutes for small files to download and visiting the reference library every other day to locate a piece of info Google now gives me in 0.0258 seconds.
Much of this data-gathering relies on a technology that places small files, known as cookies, on the hard drive of an Internet user; these generally contain an identifying number.
The defense DoubleClick offered was that it had given consumers adequate notice about how to reject its "cookies" -- small files containing identification numbers, which DoubleClick places on users' hard drives when they visit one of DoubleClick's 1,500 affiliates.
A floppy disk formatted for Windows holds 1.44 megabytes of data, good for impromptu backups of small files but grossly inadequate for today's multigigabyte hard drives and multimegabyte digital photo and music files.
On a Windows PC, copying a 1.5-gigabyte folder full of large and small files took 80 seconds on the Quantum, and 90 seconds on the Rev and RDX drives.
