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unusual facts about default


Default

Default logic, a non-monotonic logic proposed by Raymond Reiter


1896–97 Thames Ironworks F.C. season

"The Irons" had not yet played London Welsh and as a result, and probably thanks also to Arnold Hills' presidency of the league and Francis Payne's drafting of the rules, Thames Ironworks F.C. were awarded two wins by default and finished the revised league as runners up.

2013 New Orleans Bowl

Sophomore tight end Sydie London was not much of a threat in the passing game (12 receptions in 12 games), but he was one of just two tight ends on the roster, so was almost a starter by default, though at one spring practice, did impress New Orleans Saints wide receiver Marques Colston, who thought he was one of the best players on the team.

Adaptive Internet Protocol

256-bit encryption, using the AES encryption algorithm (this is the default security; older clients may use encryption of lesser strength.)

Bhagwan Dada

He took whatever roles he could get, but apart from Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje and Chori Chori, none were roles of note, and he eventually took on bit parts in which he did his famous dance (made even more famous by Amitabh Bachchan using it as his default dance step).

Breitscheidplatz

Its importance as a major hub diminished when in preparation for the 2006 FIFA World Cup the new Berlin Hauptbahnhof was completed at the site of the former Lehrter Bahnhof; this is now the main train station in Berlin, and the German Intercity-Express and InterCity long distance trains no longer stop by default at Zoologischer Garten.

British and Malaysian English differences

Most computer software in Malaysia including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office come pre-set with English (United States) as the default and these settings are seldom changed to English (United Kingdom) resulting in the proliferation of American English in many places of work, local universities and other places with heavy reliance on documents and content created by using computers.

Cornflower blue

Cornflower blue is the default clear color used in the XNA framework.

Demand guarantee

The essence of the instrument is the promise to answer for the duty of another should the other default.

DoomRL

As of 0.9.9.6, Derek Yu's graphical tileset is now the game's default, offering an alternative to the more traditional ASCII rendering.

Financial history of the Dutch Republic

As John Maynard Keynes has remarked: after the default of foreign borrowers the lending country has nothing, while after a domestic default the country has at least the physical stock that was bought with the loan.

Grand Theft Auto: London, 1969

The player names their character (Default is Sid Vacant, a parody of Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols song "Pretty Vacant") and chooses a picture to represent them.

GSM 03.40

Some ASCII characters and the Euro sign did not fit into the GSM 7 bit default alphabet and must be encoded using two septets.

IBM LAN Server

The network client was called IBM LAN Requester and was included with OS/2 EE 1.1 by default.

Jack Gladstone

Sir John Gladstone, who had never set foot on his plantation, had acquired half share in the plantation in 1812 through mortgage default; he acquired the remaining half four years later.

Java XML

XalanXSLT/XPath implementation, included in JDK 1.4 and above as the default transformer (XSLT 1.0).

JezzBall

Some are skinable; The open source Icebreaker's default skin varies radically from JezzBall, using Tux, the Linux mascot, in place of balls.

Jochen Wermuth

Yevgeny Yasin, ex-Minister of Economics wrote in his article in a book about Russian economic reforms that Jochen Wermuth, head of the Economic Expert Group under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, was the first to warn of a potential default of the Russian Government in a memo in the fall of 1996 which he forwarded to Chernomyrdin.

Jockey Club

This can be compared with the way that cricket's Marylebone Cricket Club became the governing body of cricket by default, but later surrendered most of its powers to more representative bodies.

John Lucas II

He won one other tour match, by default in doubles in 1973 in Merion, PA while partnering Vic Seixas.

Journée de solidarité envers les personnes âgées

In 2004, this new added working day was imposed by law to be by default on Pentecost Monday, formerly a non-working holiday.

Joy Smith

Smith proposed and claimed to be working on, in July of 2013, a bill that disallows access to pornography online for all Canadians by default unless they choose to opt in, similar to earlier legislation put forward in the U.K. by British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Kinderhook Industries

In June, 2012, the firm took control of M. Davis Company, Incorporated (doing business as USA Recovery, and Skip Masters), a firm based in El Dorado Hills, California that reprocesses property when owners default on loans.

Laurence D. Fink

When the project ended in default, BlackRock clients lost their money, including the California Pension and Retirement System which lost about $500 million.

LenovoEMC

In 2012, a news report by Vincent Verweij for Dutch broadcaster Katholieke Radio Omroep revealed that the contents of at least 16,000 Iomega hard drives were publicly available on the internet, due to the drives being sold with their password security systems disabled by default.

Lincoln Navigator

Expedition four-wheel drives continue to use a two-speed dual range transfer case with off road low range reduction gearing and default off road program that remaps (reprograms) the electronic throttle control and traction control system response for off road conditions.

Marc Seales

His song 'Highway Blues', was included by default in Windows XP, along with Beethoven's 9th Symphony, where it gained much fame.

Miss

Such default usage has also proved problematic; the poet Dorothy Parker was often referred to as Miss Parker, even though Parker was the name of her first husband and she herself preferred Mrs. Parker.

Monotype Imaging

CTDL was responsible for developing Microsoft JhengHei, the default traditional Chinese interface font for Windows Vista.

Mortgage Bankers Association

This was featured on The Daily Show on October 7, 2010 contrasting the MBAs actions with statements made by its representatives claiming that strategic default is morally wrong.

OpenArena

Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.

Ophcrack

This is necessary if the generation of the LM hash is disabled (this is default for Windows Vista), or if the password is longer than 14 characters (in which case the LM hash is not stored).

Planets: The Exploration of Space

For example, one of the many was that at one point in time, Seth Robinson had a crush on Jennie Garth from Beverly Hills, 90210 and this showed up in Planets: TEOS, as at least one default NPC ship captain's name was Jennie.

Powered by the Apocalypse

Default statistics are Hot, Cold, Violent, and Dark, and the playbooks presented in the main rulebook are The Chosen, the Fae, the Ghoul, the Queen, the Witch, the Werewolf, the Infernal, and the Vampire.

Prevx

Tony Zaitoun, of About.com, liked the software except that he had some confusion about configuring the interface and that key protection is disabled by default although the issue referenced has since been corrected.

Private Communications Technology

It is still found in IIS and in the Windows operating system libraries, although in Windows Server 2003 it is disabled by default.

Psycho Soldier

Ever since KOF XIIs release, The King of Fighters XIII default outfit of Kensu was left unchanged, but for Athena however, her Psycho Soldier outfit was changed from default to alternate, leaving her more popular sailor fuku outfit as her default outfit for the game.

Public domain software

Under the Berne Convention, which most countries have signed, an author automatically obtains the exclusive copyright to anything they have written, and local law may similarly grant copyright, patent, or trademark rights by default.

Radostin Kishishev

During the 1997-98 A PFG season, he was found to have been ineligible for two of Litex's games - an away fixture against PFC Velbazhd Kyustendil and a home one vs. Levski Sofia - due to not being properly registered following his transfer from Bursaspor, but despite suffering 3-0 default losses, the team from Lovech won their first title.

Samsung GT-B7330

From this device's default home screen, the user can check the weather, play songs, update CNN headlines, view photos, configure device settings, and go to social-networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, and YouTube.

Scripting for the Java Platform

There is no requirement for a given JVM to include any engines by default, but the Oracle JVM (Java 6 and later) includes a JavaScript engine based on Rhino JavaScript for Java version 1.6R2.

Sunday Observance Act 1625

The words of commencement, the words from "to the constables or churchwardens" to "shalbe committed" and the words from "and in default of such distress" to "space of three hours" were repealed by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1948.

Symbols for zero

An alternative, the slashed zero (looking similar to the letter O except for the slash), was primarily used in hand-written coding sheets before transcription to punched cards or tape, and is also used in old-style ASCII graphic sets descended from the default typewheel on the Teletype Model 33 ASR.

System partition and boot partition

Before Windows 7, the system and boot partitions were, by default, the same and were given the identifier "C:".

TnFOX

TnFOX optionally includes copies of the OpenSSL library and the SQLite library in order to implement its strong encryption and its default SQL database implementation respectively.

United States policy responses to the Great Recession

The US Pension Protection Act of 2006 included a provision which changed the definition of Qualified Default Investments (QDI) for retirement plans from stable value investments, money market funds, and cash investments to investments which expose an individual to appropriate levels of stock and bond risk based on the years left to retirement.

Verb–object–subject

Among languages with true subjects, in Hadza the word order VOS is extremely common, but is not the default, which is VSO.

WCIX

In September 2006, with ACME Communications's WBUI owned by a former WB network executive taking CW affiliation by default, WCFN took affiliation with MyNetworkTV instead in the wake of the WB/UPN merger.

Windows XP themes

Luna (the Moon in Latin, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Serbian and Russian) is the codename for the default visual theme of Windows XP.


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