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Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com)
Slashdot reader swellconvivialguy writes: A new museum in Helsingborg displays more than 70 failed products and objects, including the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Sony Betamax, Harley-Davidson perfume, and the Donald Trump board game. According to curator Samuel West, "none of the companies that I contacted wanted to cooperate. I approached quite a few innovation directors and asked them for examples of failure that they've learned from. I thought it would be easy to get them to collaborate but none of them -- zero -- choose to cooperate."
The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."
The curator urges people to accept failure -- "as an essential aspect of progress and innovation."
Dammit, I went to Switzerland
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Can we donate a life-size portrait of Bennett Hasselton or Timothy?
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Losing twice for President, I'm sure she knows a lot about failure!!!
I have always thought the Harley-Davidson Cat Collar should go in a display like this one. I bought one for our kitten once, though he's definitely not a failure of a cat. In the process of scratching and grooming he ended up rendering the Harley-Davidson logo on it illegible. Since then I have always said that Harley-Davidson can't even make a cat collar that lasts.
An asshat recently asked this question: "Why do you set yourself up for massive failure? All. The. Fucking. Time?"
My (corrected) response: "If you have to ask that question, than you know nothing about success."
Let me elaborate... failure is a learning process. You can learn more from failure than you can from success. If the world already views you as a failure, say, for being the fat retarded kid on the short bus, than you have absolutely nothing to lose by trying to succeed. Not once, not twice, not thrice, but as many times as possible in a lifetime. Failure becomes permanent only when you give up. I have absolutely no intention of ever giving up.
I have a Newton. It's battery compartment is a dismal failure. There are fussy little parts of the door that break off. I have long maintained that the reason Apple uses sealed-in batteries in their mobile devices is because they're not good enough designers to make a robust battery compartment. (Battery compartments, especially when they are designed to work with off-the-shelf consumer batteries, are an extremely difficult design challenge).
People didn't want to pay for an expensive product with limited use-cases. Once the technology improved through Psion, Palm Pilot, iPhone; tech geeks became interested.
Not exactly. Read "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" by Jerry Kaplan, about the first pen-based handheld computer in the late 1980's that got screwed over by Microsoft ("Why aren't you using Windows?!"), Intel ("Why aren't you using the 386 processor?!"), Apple ("We invented that with the Apple Newton!"), and IBM ("We don't know what we're doing but sign these forms anyway!").
Ok, so... what if the museum itself is a failure? Will they try to put the museum into itself? Won't that cause a "divide by zero" or some shit and destroy the universe?
Damn you, Sweden! You were supposed to be good guys!
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And Trump University, and Trump Vodka, and Trump Steaks, and ...
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
...it's in Austria: http://nation.com.pk/entertain... The interesting thing is, if either this austrlian museum or the swedish museum close due to poor attendance they can always acquire each others collections :)
Betamax was only a failure in the consumer market. The professional version, Betacam, was one of the most widely used videotape formats for professionals. So, eh, kinda sorta a failure, I guess.
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The Vasa museum is a commemoration of a spectacular failure (and is a good museum). That's naval history rather than modern tech, but the principles are the same.
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My two Newton 2100s are elegant devices for that time. The rechargeable battery in one has failed, of course, the other with regular batteries worked fine last time I checked. I used them at university in the 1990s to take class notes. In screenwriting class, with the lights off during a movie, I was able to take notes both with the green backlight on and without. The handwriting recognition was good enough to just write without actually seeing the resulting text. Alas, my handwriting is so bad now that even I can't recognize it.
But yes, it was a kludge. Parts of the circuitry were hand soldered, even in this final version. The cabinetry was slick with opening, folding and closing that were elegantly designed -- but could be damaged in normal use. There is a fix online that allows rechargeable batteries to be used. There are hardware and software enhancements over the years. The Newton was created in Jobs' absence and when he returned he immediately dumped it. A sad example of NIH syndrome.
The Newton Messagepad could have forged the path to our current smartphones, and with handwriting recognition they would be much better today.
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Betamax recorders were in production for almost 40 years, the tapes were produced for 50 years. That's a high level of longevity for any digital format. Production of the units survived right into the DVD era, and it's probably DVDs which killed it in the end, not VHS. VHS had 40 years to kill it, and failed.
Additionally, Betcam is still in production as is HDCAM, they have two form factors, one of which is the same as Betamax, if you watch any anime, they are still almost all mastered on HDCAM, i.e. high-definition version of Betamax tapes.
It's only a very limited viewpoint that considers Betamax a flop / failed product. If we're going that far we should consider Apple Macs a failure because Windows is industry-standard.
It's right next to the big fire extinguisher.
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My love life should get an entire wing.
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Did you know that this claim is total BS? Look at the numbers:
The definition of rape in >weden is broader than elsewhere in the west, including stuff that elsewhere would be charged under sexual harassment. Secondly the reporting works differently in that they estimate the total amount of offenses: So if a wife reports that her husband has been having sex with her against her will dozens of times, in most places it's filed as a single case of suspected rape for the national crime stats, but in Sweden they count each suspected instance separately meaning that a single case can easily generate tens or hundreds of incidents of rape for the stats. This means comparing Swedish stats to other western nations directly is not really sensible.
Lol, I can guarantee you've never lived in Sweden (me neither but I live next door in Finland and visit regularly and have friends there) . There's extensive discussion about crime stats as there's one party in the parliament that's trying to do exactly what you're trying to do, which is to insinuate that the fluctuation in the numbers is due to immigrants somehow raping people en masse on the streets, which is simply not true.
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Betamax failed because the better quality over VHS was insignificant compared to the price difference. Partly this was due to Sony not wanting to license the manufacturing of tapes, resulting in WAY higher tape prices (JVC licensed to anyone who was willing to produce VHS tapes and this resulted in competition).
Sony's decision to originally limit the size of Beta tapes to one hour, because they feared that people would use those tapes to record movies, and only after a LONG time (and a lot of pressure) relented. Because, guess what, people wanted to record movies and didn't give a shit about what Sony wanted them to do with the tapes. VHS tapes originally came with 2 hours recording time, enough to record pretty much every movie (especially after it has been cut and butchered by TV networks).
By the time Sony got the hint that they can't force their idea down people's throat, the ship had sailed.
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Let us say, they have vastly overestimated the revenue potential of failure porn. When this museum fails, would it add itself as the last entry before going defunct?
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Of course you can twist "statistics" to make it appear more rosey, when you are willing to redefine what "is" is (or in this case "rape")
Yeah, that's precisely what you're doing. Because GP showed how the statistics are not directly comparable, but you want to compare them anyway.
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They definitely need to have a "Cue Cat" on display.