Once Diablo III got over its initial launch issues with Error 37, PC gamers have been generally happy with the gameplay.

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Also, businesses will have less room for error as they launch new services and products, respond to changes in demand and expand their markets.

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Pre-orders for the game already numbered 2 million, so a very large audience paid for the game before the Error 37 controversy erupted shortly after its midnight launch.

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During decades of trial and error, the Stanford University scientists overcame engineering glitches, launch delays, budget fights, solar flares, faulty data and seven federal investigations.

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While we've no idea how much the Mars Global Surveyor actually cost to construct, launch, and manage whilst hovering around in space, it's entirely likely that a single human error wiped out even more than was initially lost by the Alaska Department of Revenue earlier this year.

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