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Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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* 1 Criteria for failure
* 2 Types of failure
* 3 Commercial failures
* 4 Internet memes
* 5 See also
* 6 Further reading
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Criteria for failure
The criteria for failure are heavily dependent on context of use, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. A situation considered to be a failure by one might be considered a success by another, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. 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 heuristics, to judge the success or failure of a situation may itself be a significant task.
[edit] 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.
1. Failure to anticipate
2. Failure to perceive
3. Failure to carry out a task
Loser is a derogatory term for a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) in general unsuccessful.
[edit] Commercial failures
A commercial failure is a product 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 List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming
* For company failures related to the 1997–2001 Dot-com bubble, see Dot-com company
* See also Vaporware
[edit] Internet memes
“Epic fail” redirects here. For the House episode, see Epic Fail (House).
Adaptation of above image illustrating an Internet Meme
“Fail” is the name of a popular Internet meme 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.[1] In July 2003, a contributor to Urban Dictionary 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 1990s Japanese video game Blazing Star, notorious for its fractured English.[2][3][4]
The term “miserable failure” has also been popularized as a result of a widely known “Google bombing,” which caused Google searches for the term to turn up the White House biography of George W. Bush.[5]
[edit] See also
* Cascading failure
* Debugging
* Fail-safe
* Failure analysis
* Failure mode
* Failure rate
* Forensic engineering
* List of military disasters
* List of railway disasters
* Murphy’s law
* New product development
* Non-event
* Planned obsolescence (also built-in obsolescence)
* Power outage
* Product
* Product management
* Single point of failure
* Structural failure
* System accident
* Tensile strength
* White elephant
And, did you copy this from Wikipedia?
LOL hahahaha very true
There should be overlap between “Doesn’t make sense” and “copied from Wikipedia”.
Agreed. [citation needed]
hell yeah!
Yeah. Wikipedia isn’t really a good source at all when anybody can edit it.
Or when anyone can edit it back. *coughcough*
Actually, there are hundreds of professional moderators that will immediately change the article back to its original content if you add a lie, biased opinion, or some sort of weird theory. Its pretty reliable, actually.
Yeah, remembered I read the GOW page about Marus being a pedophile rapist. Refreshed it and the original content came back again.
Handed in ON time?
No, it’s handed inside of time.
Clearly whoever made this graph simply sucks at essays. And probably life. Honestly, I’d punch my friend in the balls/ovaries if I saw him/her copying an essay from wikipedia. Then again the school would probably just punch them harder when they were caught plagiarism…
Here’s a graph for ya- Ants > pubic lice > plagiarizers.
Actually, it looks like a teacher’s analysis of his/her students’ essays.
Clearly whoever posted the comment two above simply has no sense of humour. And probably no life.
There is no “u” in humor. Also, how can you be on this site if you have a life?
Wait…there is only ONE u.
Er… I can has cultural awareness?
Just don’t ask him what his favourite colour is – his head may very well implode (I’ve always thought that would be a far more interesting site than one that explodes….).
But really. If you’re going to be lame enough to, you know, cheat. At least be smart enough to rip it from a website it’ll take your professor more than .2 seconds to find. But yeah, most high school teachers aren’t going to bother. But college… they have programs to bust your ass. Actually, in retrospect. Nope, jack from wikipedia all you want. Please. Go forth. And enjoy being expelled. I mean… uh…
As a proud member of the green slice, there was one class I had where all but 3 students copied from wikipedia. I handed it in late (well, I was late to class anyways), and one of the other two handed it in late. When we got them back the professor lamented about how almost everyone copy/pasted most of their paper from wikipedia, and all those people got F’s. I got an A- haha.
Actually, it can have two u’s. In the british spelling, it is spelled “humour”.
I’m British. And I never said I had a life…
Or, they actually give a sh*t about writing. I too am in the “this graph is lame” camp. If you don’t want to learn how to write, you have no business going to college.
Unless you intend to do something in the sciences…you know, something useful.
are you kidding me? You don’t think people in the sciences need to learn how to write? You haven’t reached upper division college yet…
Wow, someone doesn’t know anything about Science.
Try reading a journal article sometime.
And of course Science is the only useful thing in the world. Pretty much anything but Liberal Arts degrees are useful. Lib arts though, completely worthless. Yeah.
Us writers, poets, literary scholars, actors, directors, etc haven’t done anything for the world.
Nope.
I’d LOVE to see you cut and paste a research grant proposal from Wikipedia! Oh, and your career would be instantly over the moment you cut and pasted someone else’s journal article for submission.
Hey pants!
dont take it serious
first, as I said I just made this graph to try out the graph editor didn’t know it will be posted and eventually cause flame
second, I don’t suck at life
I go to university of Bristol next year with a 86%overall..I don’t suck at essays.. I think you and your internet soldier friends are a bit paranoid 
cheers
Secondary school grades are no indication of how you’ll do in university!
graphjam graphs are no indication of how you do in life
They’re indicative of a humor fail.
isnt 86% like a B, a.k.a not THAT great
In my day, it was Encarta. But still, so true!
Haha I remember those encyclopedias on CD.
In my day it was the big-ass 40-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
What do you really expect when someone’s asked for 1000 words on a topic that only requires 50 from anyone with any real education.
The purpose of writing is to both demonstrate your proficiency in the art and to demonstrate your understanding/mastery of the material. If it was assumed that writer already had a “real education” then there would be no reason for him/her to take a writing class.
who said it was a writing class?
I don’t know what essays you’ve been asked to write, but the essays my teachers assign never go below 4 pages.
Clearly whoever did this sucks at life. ALSO: A teacher would be out of his/her freaking mind to say that a paper with “good content” invovled Wikipedia in any way, shape, or form.
Lighten up guys.
It’s a joke not advice.
I thought it was funny
Finally, someone spoke the truth.
Short essays with good content and handed in on time are better than longer which didn’t meet the deadline. A short, good one means someone can manage his time well and can write to-the-point essays with good content.
I still alwayes got points off because mine were never long enought. Seriously…
It’s entirely possible that you got points off because you couldn’t spell words like “always” and “enough” even when you had a spell checker available to you.
Unless you have a teacher who just won’t accept a late grade, it really doesn’t matter. A lot of the time, the points you get off for it not being long enough will be around the points you’ll get off for turning it in late.
That is if you’re lucky enough to not get an incomplete (or a flat out zero) for not meeting the assigned length.
umm…. doesn’t that mean that they can’t handle their time well. if they couldn’t write the whole essay in the given amount of time. you’ll probably get an A- for a late but well written essay, but more like a B for a short on time one, or maybe thats just my school…
Yeah, uh, I’ve come here to say what others have: good content precludes copying from Wikipedia.
Here’s a trick for telling whether to use “who” or “whom”: if the next word is a verb, use WHO. If the next word is a noun or pronoun, use WHOM. (Note: only works if the sentence is not a question.)
What happens if the who/whom is at the end of the sentence?
The the trick doesn’t work, but if it’s at the end of the sentence, it’s probably right after a preposition, so it should be “whom.”
(“Whom” is the same kind of pronoun as “him,” “her,” or “them,”–an objective pronoun, the kind that acts as the object of a verb or a preposition. “Who” is a subjective pronoun, like “he,” “she,” or “they.” Sometimes you can change the sentence around to use one of the more familiar pronouns and figure it out that way.)
Whom is used with regards to an object.
Someone = subject
Poster = object
Ergo, the poster is correct.
In researching this essay, BoringTroll noticed that the wikipedia article on the subject was out of date and incomplete in the following areas…
So I spent a couple hours to find references that were up to wikipedia’s standards, and made the following 4 edits to the article. I’ve attached a printout with my edits highlighted. Tell your plagiarizer detector bot that I didn’t copy off of wikipedia, I wrote this article.
If I had points to give, I’d give them. Good answer, good answer (I sound like Richard Dawson). Ever tried it though?
Gross similarity in sentence structure and content = fail. In my book at least. What’s to say that you didn’t change your version from the original Wikipedia page? An instructor could make that argument quite easily. You might as well completely reword the entire paragraph. Just to be sure.
its a joke, so do not write about things like how the person who made this graph sucks in life…
lol i just made this graph to try out the graph editor!
didn’t know it will be posted and eventually cause flame 
dont take it serious
im happy that its posted tho
Er .. you do use a U in Humour if you live outside America. Obviously this is where the dragons are…
Aside from rendering the essay utterly pointless, copying from Wikipedia is illegal if you don’t cite all the material and put quotations around whatever you just pasted.
I’m a bit biased though, as I actually enjoy writing essays. Either way, it’s not particularly amusing to have people wasting their education.
@R
How is it illegal? Have you ever taken a look at their copyright information? Legality and going against academic ethics are two very different things.
actually, phill it is illegal, its calle PLAGERISM
very….creative…