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In general, failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success. But it also refers to GWB Look up Failure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Look up success in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Commercial failures

A commercial failure is a product that does not reach expectations of success, failing to come even close. A major flop goes one step further and is recognized for its complete lack of success. EX: George Bush

• For flops in computer and video gaming, see List of commercial failures in video gaming.
• For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company.
• See also Vaporware.

“Computer and video games” redirects here. ... As a hit-driven business, the great majority of the video games industrys software releases have been commercial failures. ... The dot-com bubble was a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995–2001 during which stock markets in Western nations saw their value increase rapidly from growth in the new Internet sector and related fields. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vaporware is software or hardware product which is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge, either with or without a protracted development cycle. ...

Other failures

• For military disasters, see List of military disasters
• For events that were highly anticipated but either did not happen or turned out to be disappointing, see Non-event.

. ... A non-event is an event that is anticlimactic to the point at which it becomes easy to argue that it barely happened at all. ...

See also

A result of Googling miserable failure Miserable failure is a term that became an Internet phenomenon in 2003 when it was reported that the first result for it on Google was the official biography of U.S. President George W. Bush. ... A cascading failure is failure in a system of interconnected parts, where the service provided depends on the operation of a preceding part, and the failure of a preceding part can trigger the failure of successive parts. ... Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware thus making it behave as expected. ... Failure analysis is the process of determining the cause of failure, collecting and analyzing data, and developing conclusions to eliminate the failure mechanism causing specific device or system failures. ... A failure mode is a characterization of the way a product or process fails. ... Failure rate is the frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour. ... It has been suggested that Finagles law and Sods law be merged into this article or section. ... In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) is the term used to describe the complete process of bringing a new product or service to market. ... A non-event is an event that is anticlimactic to the point at which it becomes easy to argue that it barely happened at all. ... Power Outage is an episode of The WB drama series, Charmed. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Reliable system design is the design of systems with high levels of reliability and availability. ... See also Murphys Law, Finagles Law and Murphys laws of combat. ... Structural failure refers to loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. ... A system accident, is defined as an accident that involves the unanticipated interaction of multiple failures in a complex system. ... Tensile strength isthe measures the force required to pull something such as rope, wire, or a structural beam to the point where it breaks. ... A white elephant For other uses, see White elephant (disambiguation). ... Look up anomaly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A fiasco (pl. ...

Bibliography

Scott A. Sandage is a cultural historian at Carnegie Mellon University [1]. He is best known as the author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. ...

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