Talk:Default (computer science)
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Pronouncition ?
[edit]Is 'default' spoken like "d-fault" or "deh-fo"? I've heard this word came from some French guy's lastname, which would explain the latter form. --200.18.97.3 10:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- I say "D-fault". StuRat 07:25, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
- I have heard both (from native speakers), but that doesn't mean both are correct, of course. According to my Oxford dictionary, the pronounciation is "deeFAULT".--JVersteeg (talk) 12:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Papers
[edit]There are two recent articles on software defaults that should be added:
Shah, R.C., & Sandvig, C. (in press). Defaults as De Facto Regulation: The Case of Wireless Access Points. Information, Communication and Society, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=964950
Kesan, J. P., & Shah, R.C. (2006). Setting Software Defaults: Perspectives from Law, Computer Science and Behavioral Economics. Notre Dame Law Review, 82(2), 583-634, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=906816
- OK, please add them. StuRat 17:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
When to use computer defaults
[edit]The paragraph mentions limiting user input and avoiding incorrect user input (though the latter point is not made very clearly), but shouldn't it also mention avoiding uninitiated variables?
- Uninitiated variables can also be avoided by a simple assignment statement, like X=3. Would you call that a "default" ? StuRat 05:30, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Unreferenced?
[edit]The Oxford English Dictionary is cited. Please narrow it down if any particuluar point needs proof.--GwydionM (talk) 18:05, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Common Usage?
[edit]Now that we have computers all over, the 1st dictionary meaning seems less used than the computer science definition.--Hengsheng120 (talk) 12:48, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Default file associations
[edit]This article doesn't mention default file associations: is this topic relevant to the article, and should it be mentioned here? Jarble (talk) 03:10, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
In operating systems
[edit]This part of the article seems to not be connected to the rest of the article at all. Should it be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.121.198.123 (talk) 12:01, 4 March 2022 (UTC)