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| ] at ], ] (1895).]]'''Failure''' refers to the state or ] of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of ]. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to ] of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of ]. | |||
| ==Criteria for failure== | |||
| The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be ] to a particular ] or ]. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct ] or a ]. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct observers or participants, such that a situation that one considers to be a failure, another might consider to be a success, a qualified success or a neutral situation. | |||
| It may also be difficult or impossible to ascertain whether a situation meets criteria for failure or success due to ambiguous or ill-defined definition of those criteria. Finding useful and effective criteria, or ]s, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task. | |||
| ==Types of failure== | |||
| Failure can be differentially perceived from the viewpoints of the evaluators. A person who is only interested in the final outcome of an activity would consider it to be an ''Outcome Failure'' if the core issue has not been resolved or a core need is not met. A failure can also be a ''process failure'' whereby although the activity is completed successfully, a person may still feel dissatisfied if the underlying process is perceived to be below expected standard or benchmark. | |||
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| '''''Loser''''' is a derogatory term for a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) generally unsuccessful. | |||
| ==Commercial failures== | |||
| A '''commercial failure''' is a ] that does not reach expectations of success. | |||
| Most of the items listed below had high expectations, significant financial investments, and/or widespread publicity, but fell far short of success. Due to the subjective nature of "success" and "meeting expectations," there can be disagreement about what constitutes a "major flop." | |||
| *For flops in computer and video gaming, see ] | |||
| *For company failures related to the 1997–2001 ], see ] | |||
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| * ] | |||
| ==Internet memes== | |||
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| "Fail" is the name of a popular ] where users superimpose a caption, often the word "'''fail'''" or "'''epic fail'''", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expectations.<ref name="redorbit">{{cite web|url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1306942/memes_help_keep_internet_interesting/index.html|title=Memes Help Keep Internet Interesting.|date=March 22, 2008|publisher=''''|accessdate=August 9, 2009}}</ref> In July 2003, a contributor to ] wrote that the term, "fail," could be used as an interjection, "when one disapproves of something," citing the example: "You actually bought that? FAIL." This most likely originated as a shortened form of "You fail" or, more fully, "You fail it," the taunting "game over" message in the late ] Japanese video game '']'', notorious for its ].<ref name="fail_NYT">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/magazine/09FOB-onlanguage-t.html?_r=3&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all|title=How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection.|last=Zimmer|first=Ben|date=August 7, 2009|publisher='']''|accessdate=August 9, 2009}}</ref><ref name="origins">{{cite news|last=Schofield|first=Jack|title=All your FAIL are belong to us.|publisher ='']''|date = 17 October 2008|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/oct/17/2|accessdate=August 9, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Christopher |last=Beam |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Epic Win |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2202262/ |work=] |publisher= |date=2008-10-15 |accessdate=2009-08-21 }}</ref> There is an entire Internet site dedicated to "fails" called ].<ref name="fail_NYT"></ref> The #fail ] is used on the microblogging site ] to indicate contempt or displeasure, and the image that accompanies the message that the site is overloaded is referred to as the "fail whale."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/failure+others+gone+competitive/2940572/story.html|title=Joy in the failure of others has gone competitive|last=Malik|first=Asmaa|date=24 April 2010|work=Montreal Gazette|accessdate=21 May 2010}}</ref> | |||
| The term "]" has also been popularized as a result of a widely known "]ing," which caused ]es for the term to turn up the White House biography of ].<ref name="snopes">{{cite web|url=http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp|title=Someone Set Us Up The Google Bomb.|last=Mikkelson, Barbara; Mikkelson, David P.|date=August 13, 2007|publisher='']''|accessdate=August 9, 2009}}</ref> | |||
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| ==Further reading== | |||
| * ]. ''Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies''. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: ], 1999. ISBN 0-691-00412-9 | |||
| * ] . Cambridge, Massachusetts: ], 2005. ISBN 0-674-01510-X, ISBN 0-674-02107-X | |||
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