Not only that, she was rammed by another British ship called "HMS Hawke" on its first journey, despite having the ship trapped in her hull, she was still able to continue her journey and successfully reached her harbour in New York (I think). Now you may be wondering what is so important about HMS Hawke, well she was a ramming vessel, meaning she was designed to ram and sink enemy ships. That's why Olympic, Titanic and Britannic were considered unsinkable... Until Titanic hit an iceberg then Britannic hit a mine, then the White star company (creators and owners of the 3 ships) lost so much money they too sank.
While the Titanic was over engineered for it's time, water tight compartments are designed differently now because of it. We now use a progressive flood if shit hits the fan, that way we don't end up listing wrong.
I watched a show that stated if the bulkheads went to the main deck it won't have sunk. Also something about not having enough lifeboats on board because they felt that it cluttered the deck.
I read somewhere that a lot of ships made after that have those same watertight barriers, but that they also have watertight deck hatches, so higher decks can't be flooded by a breach below them. A flood on e deck would be trapped on e deck.
@@davidcorreia3901 They didn't have enough lifeboats for every passenger, but that was inconsequential. They were launching boats until the thing went under, people just wouldn't get ON the damn things.
@@AIIVRSD no, they’re over engineered. And people have come to expect this overengineering to take up responsibilities that a car never was supposed to. Take the rash of children being left in hot cars a few summers ago. How many times did you hear someone say “Well, the car companies ought to...” followed by describing a system to remind the driver their kid is in the back. Firstly, no. Also, why should a car manufacturer take on the responsibility for something they never signed on for? It’s the parent/car owner/driver’s job to make sure everyone who enters the car gets out at their destination The creation of this system makes the car manufacturer liable for a task that was never their responsibility to begin with. On top of that they’d now be liable for the operation of this system, opening the door for class actions or other lawsuits involving it Last, even if the safety system worked perfectly the car maker would be named in any lawsuit involving someone dying in their car. Lawyers cast a wide net when filing suits, and even if the system operated perfectly, it being tangentially related to the death makes them a likely defendant
@@redram5150 newer cars have plenty of unnecessary features, and are extremely over engineered as a result. A touch screen on the dashboard is a great example. you never need to put any sort of computer screen on the car's dashboard, except for the main drivetrain instruments in front of the driver. not only is this completely unnecessary to the operation of a car, it is dangerous because it distracts the driver. You won't see a new car without one though.
I imported a '99 Mitsubishi Evo 6 back in January last year, despite being now, 22 years old, it was produced at the height of Mitsubishis golden era. The engine (well known) is bombproof, the hood, roof, front/rear subrames are aluminium. It has a digital climate control. Active Yaw Control on the rear diff. The intercooler has "cooling jets" that spray water on it. Take the modern day equivalent, the Ford Focus RS... all you see is problematic engine failure, gauges failing, Ford SYNC bluetooth errors, diff oil leaks. But remember, as the ignorant consumer says: "newer is better"
The digital oven in my old house once turned itself on to the highest broil setting and nearly burned my house down while I was at work. The control panel was completely blank and unresponsive, I had to turn off the kitchen breaker to shut it off. Had to keep that breaker off too and just have no electricity in my kitchen, cause the oven would turn right back on as soon as I turned the breaker back on. The manufacturer(GE) tried to give me shit about replacing it too, I had to fight with them for months and threaten to sue before they would honor the warranty. I will never buy another GE product again and will take 'outdated' appliances over digital crap any day.
reminds me of an old story i read in a magazine, i think it was "popular science": someone had an VERY early version of a "smart house". -while doing a cook-out on the back porch, he told it to activate an oven timer (to keep track of how long the food had cooked). -instead it turned on the BURGLAR ALARM, and LOCKED him OUT! -he then told it to turn off the burglar alarm, and it turned off the OUTSIDE LIGHTS! "i had no light except from the burning food." -he went next door to find a phone to call the company, and his family later said "your computer called us and told us you'd been burglarized."
4:00 Reminds me of when we recently got a new dishwasher. Lowe's employee: "What are you looking for in a dishwasher?" My dad: "I just want it to wash my dishes. I don't need it to play games, or do my taxes for me, I just want clean dishes." Employee: "Haven't heard that one before."
“Your key can’t get hacked” *Good fellas laughing meme* I’ve always thought of how if you leave your keys unattended like at work, in your purse at a restaurant and go to BR without it, in another room while over someone’s house or guests over ... ANYONE could take that key, put it in that putty stuff to mold it and make a copy... also Walmart and other places make keys for Super cheap and they never ask questions you literally could have gotten a key from your neighbors because they just wanted you to water their plants while they were on vacation and now you have full access to their house whenever you want
Usually they wouldn’t know where you lived and if they went through the trouble of following you home it would be much easier to, you know, smash a window
Thieves can make a “copy” of the signal for cars with keyless ignition. They can walk right up to your home, create an impression of it on a device, then use it to defeat the alarm, open the doors, and start it then drive off It’s a good reason to keep your keys in a shielded box with a lid made of metal
What moron leaves keys "laying around" anywhere??? I have a caribiner, on which each of my keyrings resides... When I'm on the move, it rides on a belt-loop or one of the loops in the liner of my jacket. Need a key, flip a ring off and use it... when done, put it back with a click... When I'm home (or hotel room) there are only two places other than my person for the thing. 1. My hat... Along with my wallet and other pocket contents, since I go NOWHERE without the hat, I know where to find everything else, so I'm never without it when "in the field" or just stopping at home for a shower and change... 2. A hanger/cabinet... Whether I stuck it to the wall next to the phone, or beside the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, or in a bedroom somewhere between the rifle rack and the skin-bin... There's a small cabinet with several appropriate hooks to hang caribiners, just in case I have other sets of keys to do other stuff with... It has a lock with a combination that only I know... If you don't leave crap laying around, nobody gets to it. Keys are personal crap, so maybe just don't leave them laying around... For you ladies (because I can understand feminine pockets have issues)... A fashionable jacket or vest is not only nice on you, but can similarly be equipped with a handy loop (just like a belt loop on my jeans) with a few stitches... "Synthetic Sinew" is a nylon product with a wax coating, so you DO have to singe it back to hold a knot, but that's not horribly difficult. A decent soldering or wood-burning iron can do it. AND this stuff commonly rates 90 pound breaking strength... By the time a thief breaks it, he probably wants it violently enough to want it more than you... AND just get such a piece of outer wear with a little extra space depending on the size of your key and fob set. AND just for the record, there's nothing wrong with belts and loops on skirts. Frankly, trying to be feminine has taken stretches and turns that I'm not even comfortable with... It's getting silly. ;o)
@@fishbaitx That other state with a T, if we're honest... I generally wear hats for "the field" like lengthy road and business trips, so I have something mobile to keep my "pocket carry" in when I'm "off times"... Just out of doors, hats or head-covers have particular duties and reasons... The wider brims and wire-brims bring shade and fight fatigue in summer heat, while "doo-rags" and the like just keep grease or paint or similar out of my hair... and ball-caps get a leather tab added to the bill onto which I can clip visual devices like magnifiers and such... Have a few friends in Texas, West Texas mostly... BUT yeah, it's kinda foolish to "mess with" a mountain boy. It's still an hour to the nearest police station or Wally World, and nearly everyone has a few shotguns, rifles, and such... It's kind of our form of socializing to go out "gun trading"... lolz... and I like to play with cannon when there's time... ;o)
Most elevators are over or well engineered in saftey. If an elevator would go rouge it have several safteydevices that would stop it if it would fly down the shaft. 1. 1 cable is more than enough to lift it's riders. If that cable would snap there are atleast 6 more cables lifting the elevator. 2. If all 7 safteycables would snap, the elevatorshaft is so tightley designed the elevator would get stuck on it's way down. 3. If the shaft wouldn't be tight enough there are a pair of scissorslike arms hiding underneath the floor that folds out and clamp/ lock the elevator to the shaftwalls. 4. If the scissorslike arms wouldn't fold out and stays closed there are coils in the shaftbottom to make the elevator crash smoother.
@@Butter-Milk I read up on elevatorsaftey because I am affraid of riding elevators. I am not affraid the elevator would fall. I am affraid the floor underneath me falls, and the elevator keeps going up. The worst elevators to ride are the ones wothout handles inside.
On TH-cam, there is a man who created the most awesome trap for porch pirates. It does everything. It explodes with glitter when its opened then sprays a skunk smell several times while recording the whole thing.
The password protection software at work. "Mud_B70Od_GunZ&D17t!" Wasn't long or complicated enough for a new password. I got fed up and asked IT to just make one up for me after wasting over an hour trying to make one.
The number of weird restrictions is ridiculous when length is the biggest determiner for how difficult it is to crack a password. A password such as "ILikeMyCheesePizzaWithLotsOfYummyAnchovies!" would take almost 280 years for a computer to brute force.
@@dav356 A random set of characters certainly makes a more secure password, but it also makes it harder to remember and less practical unless you use a password manager.
EVERY single gun currently produced by Heckler and Koch (H&K) EDIT: On the bright side, if you maintain them correctly, they will work FOR GOD DAMN EVER. On the downside, the MOMENT you don't, they break and can be expensive and difficult to repair.
The Killdozer. The amount of time an effort that went into making that contraption is astonishing. Granted it was one man making it, and it did sure serve its purpose. But dude, you could’ve destroyed all those assholes properties without so much effort. RIP, Marvin Heemeyer, you absolute legend.
the strobe function is to signal aircraft... and often the batteries on such a flash light can keep that strobe on for 4 contiguous days... meaning if you only ever turned it on at night and on during the day when aircraft were overhead you could stretch that battery to damn near a week... if temperatures werent awful that is.
The DSLR camera I bought in a fit of enthusiasm when I retired. 18 surface controls, two of which a scroll wheels that take you through several menus and menu levels, some of which change what some of the other controls do; and you can change some of the menu functions to different actions as well. The physical manual that comes with it has about 130 A6 size pages of instructions. Ended up using aperture priority and changing the nominal ISO rating for low light. And you can't use it as a web cam.
14:00 the hoover dam. I recall seeing something about it being an early major dam to use a special or double curved wall construction or something like that. And engineers at the time worked out it would require a lot less concrete. Someone higher up decided they didn't trust the calculations so they made it thicker anyway
As somebody who is completely blind touchscreen or smart anything drives me up the dang wall I am still using an iPhone 5S about to upgrade to the 6+ because my home button finally it’s going out after almost 6 years but the voiceover that comes with it works better than any other screen reader on a phone
I have periphial neuropathy, so some days touch screens dont work. I had actually stopped going to mcdonalds (before covid ) because they were forcing you to order on a screen, which only works 1 out if three times for me.
If you have a broken thing you can't fix that strangers will be around, put a sign on it: "Don't touch me I'm broken! (Ask before trying to fix, please and thanks)"
I have a very nice guitar vibrato unit (the wa-wa bar) that has individual adjustment screws for each string with wooden knobs, gold plating and an arm that stretches to rock an adjustable bridge It was available on some famous high-end guitars in the 1970's. I asked a guitar expert what it was and he told me "It's an over-engineered piece of bling to sparkle and ensure that your guitar is never in tune!" Magazine program: I made my own program for this. Is is gravity-actuated and ensures the magazine just drops to the floor in front of the bowl and just stays there.... Titanic: It's also the only cruise ship to ever sink from colliding with an iceberg.
5:25 reminds me of a time i glitched an old game called "Heretic". when i picked up a new weapon WHILE reloading my current weapon, my character got stuck halfway through the reload animation, and i could not fight AT ALL.
Modern televisions. My 87 year old dad had to get a new TV because his very old one finally conked out. It was like setting up a space station even to me, and my TV's only seven years old but bloody hell. Menu screens coming out of its backside. He just wants to watch the telly, not set up the Moon landing...
My parents have a 50 inch LED TV that got taken out by a lightning strike. I watched it being serviced and found most of the internals were attached to the case by clear tape. I can't decide whether it's a testament to how light the components are or how nasty their corner cutting practices are... 😅
i heard several things about Titanic: it had poor-quality steel, that got brittle when cold. that made a difference in the actual collision. and this one is REALLY bad: it actually had a new type of lifeboat launching system, that could turn around and pick up MORE boats, allowing it to launch several lifeboat from EVERY launchers! IF they had BROUGHT 4 lifeboats per launcher, they COULD have saved everyone...but they didn't.
The F-35 Lightning II honestly. They started the program on the naive belief that they can a single air-frame that would meet the needs to the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy at the same time and in the end they ended with so little parts commonality that it would have been better to just let the branches develop their own aircraft. And they wanted to make a stealth fighter craft like the F-22 on top of this.
@@hwiley8141 Well it is primarily due to different philosophies and the large number of aircraft they wanted the F-35 to replace. The Air Force for example uses plenty of single engine fighter Jet designs like the F-16 but the Navy prefers twin-engine designs like the F/A-18 because twin engine jets have a built-in redundancy because if one of the engines fails, you can limp back to the carrier with your remaining engine. The F-35's single engine was a point of criticism for the Navy because they don't normally adopt single engine jets. There is also the fact the Marines wanted their F-35 to have VTOL capabilities because it is meant to replace the Harrier as their VTOL craft and the Navy needed a variant with a strong tailhook and landing gear so it could launch and land on a carrier using the catapult
1:10 isn't over-engineered. Nor is the Audi story before it That's called 'poorly engineered.' Over-engineered means that it not only accomplishes the job without adding extra steps, but it can accomplish even more - or be far stronger than what was needed - but it doesn't really mean that the owner should be put through more hassle to do the task or use the item.
Electric handbrakes. Yet to find the advantage of them. What makes it worse is you need a computer with special software just to do a simple job like replacing brake pads.
I still get amazed when I see a car motor... How well engineered they are... And then I also think that they are not made suddenly... It took decades to improvise them... Slowly making progress
4:29 Those shoes give me an idea: I've always wanted a device that allows me to send and receive information between me and my UMPC without anyone seeing, so that I can keep working on it and/or look things up while I am having a conversation without seeming rude. I thought perhaps something in my shoes that I control using my toes might work but how do I get the information back? Vibrations! Do you like my idea? Let's make a business out of it: I do the programming and the interface design, you do the rest! Or, if you want to steal my idea, notify me and I will become your first customer!
10:14 A4tech xl-755bk best gaming mouse, good editeable onboard macros (5 sets of 8, for each of 5 custom modes), high DPI, braided cable, long service life (if you clean it every once in a while). 25$
14:43 I can feel them. My first car was a 1993 Volvo 850 glt. I finally got a new car when the Volvo’s heater gave out. And by new, I mean my mother gave me her old 2001 Kia Sportage and traded the Volvo in, with trade in credit 4x what I paid for the dang thing. I didn’t even get $600 trade in credit on the Kia when I got my current vehicle, a 2011 Ford Fusion. I still miss that Volvo. $1900 was a lot to a 17 year old me, but it was worth it. Mom did help talk it down from 2600. That 700 saved went right into a new front axle, as the old one was close to breaking
“A cheap car radio that had buttons to increase the bass or tempo” you could increase the tempo on the radio huh...thats pretty insane! (Obviously they meant “treble”)
Stop giving people who won't bother to learn to spell or type correctly a free pass. They wrote tempo and should have to carry the shame of not proofreading and then not bothering to edit their obvious mistake. And no, I don't give cell phone users or people using spell checkers any slack.
I remember seeing a movie in OmniMax and it wasn't pleasant. They put the dome on the ceiling so you had to really crane your neck to watch the movie. As if J.J. Abrams Star Trek films weren't painful enough.
My smartphone has a built-in lamp. How do I turn it on? Step 1: Download a flashlight app. Step 2: Install the flashlight app. Allow it to access your camera. Because the lamp is part of your camera. And the permission system doesn't distinguish between the two. Makes sense, right? Step 3: Start the flashlight app. Wait until it has been fully loaded. Step 4: Skip the ad. Step 5: Tell the flashlight app to turn on the light by swiping the virtual on-screen knob into the correct direction. Because it's off by default. Even though the app doesn't do anything else. Step 6: Realize you don't need the light anymore because you weren't fast enough and now it's too late.
The one about the aftermarket radio in the car sounds like he got something that was for an “audiofile” and he clearly wasn’t judging on the fact that he was annoyed he had more control of the sound quality
The video game thing was actually partially done in an old game game called *7.62 High Caliber* It's a 3d Jagged Alliance 2 style game it since its Russian that means its buggy, unfinished, and not greatly translated. But it's fun as hell regardless. The attention to detail is so good.
I can name a use for every button of my mouse, every key of my keyboard, every button of my controller, and every hardware button of my smartphone, but not every button of my TV's remote controller. And yet, it's supposed to be the easiest possible interface to use for old people?
It makes sense that the Hoover Dam was overengineered, we were in the middle of the Depression and the government was desperately trying to create jobs to keep people employed in some capacity.
That Juicero was even more over engineered than described. They went all out on build quality. They used solid aluminum blocks, heavy duty hydraulics & motors, etc. The thing could easily crush a real orange without any effort. I think they intended something along those lines but realized too late that the juice packets couldn't be done they way they intended but were too far into the development to back it up to a less engineered version. It's something like $400 worth of parts alone, which meant cost margin was shot.
6:40 some people forget that Harland an Wolf were the best ship builder's of their time and the sister ship to the titanic the Britannic survived the fist and second world wars as a troop carrier/ hospital ship taking much more dangerous routes from Canada to France and was only scrapped due to that style of ship becoming effectively useless due to air travel and that ship crashed several times but never sank
Getting rid if the headphone jack on the iphone just to make .00000000001% lighter and .00000000001% thinner so now I have to buy new wireless headphones and cant use anything else or have to buy the adaptor and I also cant charge my phone and listen with headphones at the same time because theres only then one port for that now. Again...just to make it .0000000000001% thinner and lighter which I couldn’t care less about!
Some companies actually allows it's employees to listen to music while working. Most of the companies I where hired to allowed it. I have had a wireless headphone for atleast 5 years. No wires in the way disturbing work anywhere. I don't miss the cabled headphones with wires disturbing work. I love the wireless headphones and the removal of the headphonejack made no diffrence to me. :D Greatings from a Samsunguser :D
It's not to make the phones lighter or thinner, that's just the excuse they use. The point is to force you to buy the more expensive and easier to lose wireless earphones.
16:58 Fingerprint scanning is already over engineered. It's not as reliable as it seems, it doesn't work if you cut your finger, you cannot lend your fingerprint to anyone else, you cannot tell someone your fingerprint so they can use your phone on your behalf, your fingerprint can be easily hacked by someone dusting your workplace for fingerprints, if someone successfully hacks your fingerprint you cannot change it, and if you die your family cannot access your data. Oh, and if you are drunk or asleep someone can just put your finger onto your phone and get access to it. Also, does Apple collect my fingerprint? The only advantage? It's slightly faster than entering a multi-digit code or a swiping gesture.
Cars made by Bugatti. Quad turbo 16 cylinder just to make 1000HP lmao Meanwhile other supercars and small aftermarket modders are pushing over 2000HP reliably with just twin turbo v8s or v10s.
Lmfao the flashlight one, i bought a bunch of stuff for a bugout bag/disaster kit and opted for the cheaper flashlight with "Multiple brightness settings" The frickin thing has like 15 different settings, and only one button. The first setting is perfect, and it has a telescopic housing so can manipulate the beam, but then i have to cycle through 14 other settings to turn the damn thing off lol
The couch console: i have bought one these for me to have a simple life right one day d\tried seeing some of the faults of it, right well I tested it with my soda by trying to make it spill well it did in the most dumbest way possible , i spilled it by tilting it so much that it spilled on my new suit on my bed, i thought that was just karma
I miss power seatbelts, you get in then it moves backward and falls down and bam your buckled in. Pop up headlights, ugh I love and miss 90's cars. My mom had a mitsubishi eclipse had power seat belts, pop up headlights everything I miss that car. She's had some cool cars in her day, FC RX7, ect.
I always find it bizarre how computers keep getting smaller while TVs keep getting bigger! Like, big TVs are bulky and expensive and hard to clean and heavy and easily breakable and do you really have room for it? Shouldn't there be projectors of comparable quality by now? Then there is the aspect ratio. Our first TV was 4:3 so movies would always have black bars. Then we switched to a 16:9 TV but now movies are 21:9 so the black bars are still there! With computers, well, I've always used a desktop computer for my entire life. If I had ever used a laptop I could have carried it anywhere and would have lost it by now.
In the past, every computer and every calculator used to support BASIC. And every math school book taught you how to program in BASIC. Everyone who owned a computer knew how to write programs on it. Nowadays, if you want to write a program, you'll have to download a program and then watch some online tutorials on how to use it, both of which require you to have internet. Why doesn't Windows come with a built-in tutorial on how to program in Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft .NET? Compared to the past, present computers are just under engineered. Even though they can do so much more now.
Automobiles. I truly believe all yhe thousand things under the hood could be condensed/improved to not be 70 different moving parts made to eventually fail
kudos to the hoover dam engineers though, they wanted to be very f*cking sure that no amount of water pressure would knock that thing down also it supports a 2 lane road which is pretty sweet
Imagine you're programming an RPG. The player will enter their name and your dialog system has to support texts that will contain the player's name. So you write "Hello, {name}. Welcome to this game." and make it so that every instance of "{name}" is replaced with the player's name. Now imagine giving the player the option to choose their gender. So you add "{he/she}" and "{his/her}" and "{himself/herself}" and "{man/woman}" and "{wizard/witch}" and so on. So far so good. But now imagine you want to be inclusive to LGBT people and therefore add non-binary/intersex/hermaphrodite/queer/genderfluid/thirdgender/genderless/agender people, as well, so you give players to select their preferred pronoun out of "he", "she", "it", "they", "one", "ip", "ne", "nis", "hiser", "thon", "hi", "hes", "hem", "ir", "hizer", "ons", "e", "ith", "his-her", "ze", "xe", "friend", "shklee", "a", "ou", "yo", "ae", "co", "ve", "per", "ey", "hu", "fae", a nounself pronoun, a technopronoun, alternating pronouns, no pronoun at all, or a completely new pronoun system. How hard would it be to invent such a dialog system and would it be overengineered? Keep in mind that the system would have to be designed separately for every language the game could possibly support!
They did a study and 90% of the time people just reheat on high. The microwave is a perfect example of adding features to get you to upgrade. Howver, the first microwave to come out with volumn control, so I dont wake the whole house getting a late night snack, will have my money. BEEP, BEEP, BEEP !
Why was the titanic one in there? They talked about how great it was and ahead of its time it was so that doesnt fit in this thread of OVER thought....
Pretty much any software tech made by Microsoft. Not just Microsoft Office either. Their frameworks and tools tend to be bloated, needlessly complicated monstrosities with lots of points of failure due to feature bloat and an attempt to make the frameworks fit every single conceivable need.
I don't like devices that require you to download an app to use them when a simple remote-controller could have done the same. It's not that I don't want them to collect my private data, it's just that my phone has disk space problems, an unreliable battery, a slow Android 4.0.3 operating system that cannot be upgraded, and I want to use it for other things! Also, what about customers who don't even have a smartphone? If I wanted to control your device using my phone I would by a MicroBot Push!
Anything made by Germans. It is actually a joke in the firearms community that if you gave German engineer a bunch of parts three hours and no supervision you will always get a rapid-firing cookoo clock at the end. FG-42 is a good example of them over-engineering. What they needed was a rifle that could equipped for paratroopers. What they ordered was a gun that part machine gun, part SMG, and part precision rifle with an open bolt setting for full-auto, closed-bolt setting for semi-auto, bipod, scope, bayonet, and grenade adapter. The designers joked they were asked to make egg-laying wooly dairy pig and the gun was so complex that is is known to break itself when fired full auto. Exhibit B, The Tiger tank prototype made by Porsche which used dual engines to power to dual electric motors to drive the tank. It had a bad habit of bursting to flames from driving steep inclines and was wisely not adopted but refitted to be used as tank destroyers dubbed the Ferdinand. Exhibit C is the G41 M rifle. Once again the problems is with the specifications that the rifle couldn't have any holes drilled into it from the outside so it uses a very complex gas trap action and it also had be able to use as a bolt-action rifle if needed. It was beaten by the G41 W by a different company who realized how absurd the demands were and ignored resulting in a better gun then the G41 M which was made to the letter. Also they used to hang Christmas Trees from the ceiling.
Phones tech companies doesn’t want us to repair our own phones so they make them overly complicated to fix and so we have to go to the tech companies store and buy a new one if your old phone breaks
That reminds me of all those spaceships in science-fiction movies. They always have lots of buttons and show you lots of graphs showcasing who-knows-what. Is this really the interface of the future? I mean, if you look at planes and rockets and sound studios and even some MMORPGs now they really do have lots of buttons and lots of graphs, but those interfaces are just the ones in front of your seat, while the graphs and buttons in the science-fiction movies have the same density but fill out the entire room where the crew is in! Can't those things be automated with future AI technology, only showing you the buttons and graphs when they become necessary? Shouldn't interfaces be easy to use?
That was a different time. Apollo 11 etc. were just like that, buttons and switches everywhere. The Shuttle isn't any different either. And it's true in just about EVERY genre that the media are lagging behind current tech by decades unless ordered otherwise. To a degree, it's because the people making movies remember things from the years when they watched movies themselves, which tends to be decades ago. For example, we still get modem connection sounds (obsolete in many nations for almost two decades), dogfights within visual range (rare since the Vietnam War), and conventional battleships (obsolete since WWII, and even _during_ WWII, although it took all powers a few years to realize it). Back to the spacecraft with buttons/switches everywhere: respect to the few films where all buttons are recessed and switches have tiny guardrails to prevent any contact by accident. Zero G is no joke when it comes to safety issues. (BTW, you might have heard that anecdote that NASA spent a million to develop a pen that writes in zero g, while the Soviets just used pencils. That was because the Soviet space program used air but the U.S. program used pure oxygen. Graphite burns like a torch in that atmosphere; they couldn't simply resort to pencils. They couldn't simply switch to air either; that would have increased the weight of the capsule, necessitating the design of a stronger rocket. It wasn't NASA that paid that million either.)
BMW engines. Not the engines per se, but things that are otherwise easy to access for maintenance in other makes. Change your spark plugs? You have to all but remove the fvcking engine block. WHY?!
I saw a video about rebuilding the engine in a z4. apparently, they thought it would be a good idea to put the timing chain on the back of the engine. if you're building an engine on a desk, it doesn't really matter, but most mechanics rebuild an engine while it's attached to an engine stand, which attaches to the back of the engine. by putting the timing chain on the back of the engine, they made it impossible to replace it or to rebuild the engine unless the engine was removed from the car and mounted on a stand designed specifically for that engine.
"I don't want to pay for therapy when my panini press gets cyber bullied on Twitter." That's the funniest way I've heard it put.
The turboencabulator one had me believing that i am illiterate.
It reminded me of the time I went to Wales for holiday and kept thinking I was having a stroke
That explains why the Titanic's sister, the Olympic, performed so well as a merchant cruiser in WW1. She literally sunk a U boat by RAMMING it!
Not only that, she was rammed by another British ship called "HMS Hawke" on its first journey, despite having the ship trapped in her hull, she was still able to continue her journey and successfully reached her harbour in New York (I think). Now you may be wondering what is so important about HMS Hawke, well she was a ramming vessel, meaning she was designed to ram and sink enemy ships. That's why Olympic, Titanic and Britannic were considered unsinkable... Until Titanic hit an iceberg then Britannic hit a mine, then the White star company (creators and owners of the 3 ships) lost so much money they too sank.
Smh, i came to this video to escape the white star line rabbit hole i have been in on youtube
“I don’t want to pay for therapy for my panini press when it gets cyberbullied on twitter”
HAHAHA
While the Titanic was over engineered for it's time, water tight compartments are designed differently now because of it. We now use a progressive flood if shit hits the fan, that way we don't end up listing wrong.
I watched a show that stated if the bulkheads went to the main deck it won't have sunk. Also something about not having enough lifeboats on board because they felt that it cluttered the deck.
I read somewhere that a lot of ships made after that have those same watertight barriers, but that they also have watertight deck hatches, so higher decks can't be flooded by a breach below them. A flood on e deck would be trapped on e deck.
@@AlexandarHullRichter That is true, it's the layout and frames that are a bit different, not the compartments themselves.
If the bulkheads went to the top it would not have sunk. It also would not have sunk if they hit the berg straight on instead of side swiped it.
@@davidcorreia3901 They didn't have enough lifeboats for every passenger, but that was inconsequential. They were launching boats until the thing went under, people just wouldn't get ON the damn things.
Cars, things are getting way too complicated and getting impossible to repair when shit breaks.
Not over engineered, only made not to last ;/
@@AIIVRSD both to be honest
@@AIIVRSD no, they’re over engineered. And people have come to expect this overengineering to take up responsibilities that a car never was supposed to.
Take the rash of children being left in hot cars a few summers ago. How many times did you hear someone say “Well, the car companies ought to...” followed by describing a system to remind the driver their kid is in the back.
Firstly, no.
Also, why should a car manufacturer take on the responsibility for something they never signed on for? It’s the parent/car owner/driver’s job to make sure everyone who enters the car gets out at their destination
The creation of this system makes the car manufacturer liable for a task that was never their responsibility to begin with. On top of that they’d now be liable for the operation of this system, opening the door for class actions or other lawsuits involving it
Last, even if the safety system worked perfectly the car maker would be named in any lawsuit involving someone dying in their car. Lawyers cast a wide net when filing suits, and even if the system operated perfectly, it being tangentially related to the death makes them a likely defendant
@@redram5150 newer cars have plenty of unnecessary features, and are extremely over engineered as a result.
A touch screen on the dashboard is a great example. you never need to put any sort of computer screen on the car's dashboard, except for the main drivetrain instruments in front of the driver. not only is this completely unnecessary to the operation of a car, it is dangerous because it distracts the driver. You won't see a new car without one though.
I imported a '99 Mitsubishi Evo 6 back in January last year, despite being now, 22 years old, it was produced at the height of Mitsubishis golden era. The engine (well known) is bombproof, the hood, roof, front/rear subrames are aluminium. It has a digital climate control. Active Yaw Control on the rear diff. The intercooler has "cooling jets" that spray water on it.
Take the modern day equivalent, the Ford Focus RS... all you see is problematic engine failure, gauges failing, Ford SYNC bluetooth errors, diff oil leaks.
But remember, as the ignorant consumer says: "newer is better"
The digital oven in my old house once turned itself on to the highest broil setting and nearly burned my house down while I was at work. The control panel was completely blank and unresponsive, I had to turn off the kitchen breaker to shut it off. Had to keep that breaker off too and just have no electricity in my kitchen, cause the oven would turn right back on as soon as I turned the breaker back on. The manufacturer(GE) tried to give me shit about replacing it too, I had to fight with them for months and threaten to sue before they would honor the warranty. I will never buy another GE product again and will take 'outdated' appliances over digital crap any day.
reminds me of an old story i read in a magazine, i think it was "popular science": someone had an VERY early version of a "smart house".
-while doing a cook-out on the back porch, he told it to activate an oven timer (to keep track of how long the food had cooked).
-instead it turned on the BURGLAR ALARM, and LOCKED him OUT!
-he then told it to turn off the burglar alarm, and it turned off the OUTSIDE LIGHTS! "i had no light except from the burning food."
-he went next door to find a phone to call the company, and his family later said "your computer called us and told us you'd been burglarized."
4:00 Reminds me of when we recently got a new dishwasher. Lowe's employee: "What are you looking for in a dishwasher?" My dad: "I just want it to wash my dishes. I don't need it to play games, or do my taxes for me, I just want clean dishes." Employee: "Haven't heard that one before."
“Your key can’t get hacked” *Good fellas laughing meme* I’ve always thought of how if you leave your keys unattended like at work, in your purse at a restaurant and go to BR without it, in another room while over someone’s house or guests over ... ANYONE could take that key, put it in that putty stuff to mold it and make a copy... also Walmart and other places make keys for Super cheap and they never ask questions you literally could have gotten a key from your neighbors because they just wanted you to water their plants while they were on vacation and now you have full access to their house whenever you want
Usually they wouldn’t know where you lived and if they went through the trouble of following you home it would be much easier to, you know, smash a window
Thieves can make a “copy” of the signal for cars with keyless ignition. They can walk right up to your home, create an impression of it on a device, then use it to defeat the alarm, open the doors, and start it then drive off
It’s a good reason to keep your keys in a shielded box with a lid made of metal
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What moron leaves keys "laying around" anywhere???
I have a caribiner, on which each of my keyrings resides... When I'm on the move, it rides on a belt-loop or one of the loops in the liner of my jacket. Need a key, flip a ring off and use it... when done, put it back with a click...
When I'm home (or hotel room) there are only two places other than my person for the thing.
1. My hat... Along with my wallet and other pocket contents, since I go NOWHERE without the hat, I know where to find everything else, so I'm never without it when "in the field" or just stopping at home for a shower and change...
2. A hanger/cabinet... Whether I stuck it to the wall next to the phone, or beside the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, or in a bedroom somewhere between the rifle rack and the skin-bin... There's a small cabinet with several appropriate hooks to hang caribiners, just in case I have other sets of keys to do other stuff with... It has a lock with a combination that only I know...
If you don't leave crap laying around, nobody gets to it. Keys are personal crap, so maybe just don't leave them laying around...
For you ladies (because I can understand feminine pockets have issues)... A fashionable jacket or vest is not only nice on you, but can similarly be equipped with a handy loop (just like a belt loop on my jeans) with a few stitches... "Synthetic Sinew" is a nylon product with a wax coating, so you DO have to singe it back to hold a knot, but that's not horribly difficult. A decent soldering or wood-burning iron can do it. AND this stuff commonly rates 90 pound breaking strength... By the time a thief breaks it, he probably wants it violently enough to want it more than you... AND just get such a piece of outer wear with a little extra space depending on the size of your key and fob set.
AND just for the record, there's nothing wrong with belts and loops on skirts. Frankly, trying to be feminine has taken stretches and turns that I'm not even comfortable with... It's getting silly. ;o)
@@fishbaitx That other state with a T, if we're honest... I generally wear hats for "the field" like lengthy road and business trips, so I have something mobile to keep my "pocket carry" in when I'm "off times"...
Just out of doors, hats or head-covers have particular duties and reasons... The wider brims and wire-brims bring shade and fight fatigue in summer heat, while "doo-rags" and the like just keep grease or paint or similar out of my hair... and ball-caps get a leather tab added to the bill onto which I can clip visual devices like magnifiers and such...
Have a few friends in Texas, West Texas mostly... BUT yeah, it's kinda foolish to "mess with" a mountain boy. It's still an hour to the nearest police station or Wally World, and nearly everyone has a few shotguns, rifles, and such... It's kind of our form of socializing to go out "gun trading"... lolz... and I like to play with cannon when there's time... ;o)
Most elevators are over or well engineered in saftey. If an elevator would go rouge it have several safteydevices that would stop it if it would fly down the shaft.
1. 1 cable is more than enough to lift it's riders. If that cable would snap there are atleast 6 more cables lifting the elevator.
2. If all 7 safteycables would snap, the elevatorshaft is so tightley designed the elevator would get stuck on it's way down.
3. If the shaft wouldn't be tight enough there are a pair of scissorslike arms hiding underneath the floor that folds out and clamp/ lock the elevator to the shaftwalls.
4. If the scissorslike arms wouldn't fold out and stays closed there are coils in the shaftbottom to make the elevator crash smoother.
Well that I can understand completely and am okay with.
@@Butter-Milk I read up on elevatorsaftey because I am affraid of riding elevators. I am not affraid the elevator would fall. I am affraid the floor underneath me falls, and the elevator keeps going up. The worst elevators to ride are the ones wothout handles inside.
On TH-cam, there is a man who created the most awesome trap for porch pirates. It does everything. It explodes with glitter when its opened then sprays a skunk smell several times while recording the whole thing.
Mark rober i think
I'd almost forgotten about that guy!
The video game magazine one sounds complicated until you find out ARMA's been doing that exact same thing for over a decade
The password protection software at work.
"Mud_B70Od_GunZ&D17t!" Wasn't long or complicated enough for a new password. I got fed up and asked IT to just make one up for me after wasting over an hour trying to make one.
The number of weird restrictions is ridiculous when length is the biggest determiner for how difficult it is to crack a password. A password such as "ILikeMyCheesePizzaWithLotsOfYummyAnchovies!" would take almost 280 years for a computer to brute force.
@@dav356 A random set of characters certainly makes a more secure password, but it also makes it harder to remember and less practical unless you use a password manager.
Last night I bought a Liter of "Smart Water". I've spent the last few hours trying to get it to connect with my WiFi. I blame Comcast.
Take my upvote and go away.
the hoover dam was overengineered on purpose. workers needed a job, that amount of work gave them jobs for a long time.
EVERY single gun currently produced by Heckler and Koch (H&K)
EDIT: On the bright side, if you maintain them correctly, they will work FOR GOD DAMN EVER. On the downside, the MOMENT you don't, they break and can be expensive and difficult to repair.
18:00 The turboencabulator, as anyone who owns one, knows that it is spot on. The last line really sums it up.
The Killdozer. The amount of time an effort that went into making that contraption is astonishing. Granted it was one man making it, and it did sure serve its purpose.
But dude, you could’ve destroyed all those assholes properties without so much effort.
RIP, Marvin Heemeyer, you absolute legend.
the strobe function is to signal aircraft... and often the batteries on such a flash light can keep that strobe on for 4 contiguous days... meaning if you only ever turned it on at night and on during the day when aircraft were overhead you could stretch that battery to damn near a week... if temperatures werent awful that is.
The DSLR camera I bought in a fit of enthusiasm when I retired. 18 surface controls, two of which a scroll wheels that take you through several menus and menu levels, some of which change what some of the other controls do; and you can change some of the menu functions to different actions as well. The physical manual that comes with it has about 130 A6 size pages of instructions. Ended up using aperture priority and changing the nominal ISO rating for low light. And you can't use it as a web cam.
18:38 For those who don’t know, the Turboencalculator is a joke among engineers the parts do not exist they are made up.
Yeah, it’s a spoof of the abundance of jargon and technobabble in these fields.
I'm perfectly fine with my dodge ram 2006 low rider. It's such a nice vehicle all around
i like the viper trucks theyre pretty epic how you described urs remimded me of that
@@shedeeran8526 damn those look sick. Saw those in a car mag in some waiting room a long time ago.
@@SafeTopps same here always thaught they were cool
17:12 this one gave me a smile that is was mentioned
14:00 the hoover dam. I recall seeing something about it being an early major dam to use a special or double curved wall construction or something like that. And engineers at the time worked out it would require a lot less concrete. Someone higher up decided they didn't trust the calculations so they made it thicker anyway
Maybe the clock on the bike lock was so you could see how late you are because of a crappy lock that won't open.
To the post about the German tanks
Ever heard of the big brother of the Maus ? The Ratte
As somebody who is completely blind touchscreen or smart anything drives me up the dang wall I am still using an iPhone 5S about to upgrade to the 6+ because my home button finally it’s going out after almost 6 years but the voiceover that comes with it works better than any other screen reader on a phone
I have periphial neuropathy, so some days touch screens dont work. I had actually stopped going to mcdonalds (before covid ) because they were forcing you to order on a screen, which only works 1 out if three times for me.
I love the fact someone mentioned the Panzerkampthwagen VII tiger 2. Both the P and H variant where super complex
If you have a broken thing you can't fix that strangers will be around, put a sign on it: "Don't touch me I'm broken! (Ask before trying to fix, please and thanks)"
I have a very nice guitar vibrato unit (the wa-wa bar) that has individual adjustment screws for each string with wooden knobs, gold plating and an arm that stretches to rock an adjustable bridge It was available on some famous high-end guitars in the 1970's. I asked a guitar expert what it was and he told me "It's an over-engineered piece of bling to sparkle and ensure that your guitar is never in tune!" Magazine program: I made my own program for this. Is is gravity-actuated and ensures the magazine just drops to the floor in front of the bowl and just stays there.... Titanic: It's also the only cruise ship to ever sink from colliding with an iceberg.
5:25 reminds me of a time i glitched an old game called "Heretic".
when i picked up a new weapon WHILE reloading my current weapon, my character got stuck halfway through the reload animation, and i could not fight AT ALL.
Modern televisions. My 87 year old dad had to get a new TV because his very old one finally conked out. It was like setting up a space station even to me, and my TV's only seven years old but bloody hell. Menu screens coming out of its backside. He just wants to watch the telly, not set up the Moon landing...
My parents have a 50 inch LED TV that got taken out by a lightning strike. I watched it being serviced and found most of the internals were attached to the case by clear tape. I can't decide whether it's a testament to how light the components are or how nasty their corner cutting practices are... 😅
@@HarmonyEdge both
_Approved by a turtle_ ✓
i heard several things about Titanic:
it had poor-quality steel, that got brittle when cold. that made a difference in the actual collision.
and this one is REALLY bad:
it actually had a new type of lifeboat launching system, that could turn around and pick up MORE boats, allowing it to launch several lifeboat from EVERY launchers!
IF they had BROUGHT 4 lifeboats per launcher, they COULD have saved everyone...but they didn't.
The F-35 Lightning II honestly. They started the program on the naive belief that they can a single air-frame that would meet the needs to the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy at the same time and in the end they ended with so little parts commonality that it would have been better to just let the branches develop their own aircraft. And they wanted to make a stealth fighter craft like the F-22 on top of this.
That's the problem when you try to make something that does everything, you end up with a product that does nothing well.
What I never figured out is why each branch had requirements that were so different.
@@hwiley8141 Well it is primarily due to different philosophies and the large number of aircraft they wanted the F-35 to replace. The Air Force for example uses plenty of single engine fighter Jet designs like the F-16 but the Navy prefers twin-engine designs like the F/A-18 because twin engine jets have a built-in redundancy because if one of the engines fails, you can limp back to the carrier with your remaining engine. The F-35's single engine was a point of criticism for the Navy because they don't normally adopt single engine jets. There is also the fact the Marines wanted their F-35 to have VTOL capabilities because it is meant to replace the Harrier as their VTOL craft and the Navy needed a variant with a strong tailhook and landing gear so it could launch and land on a carrier using the catapult
God it is way too satisfying having an all in one thing tho.
1:10 isn't over-engineered. Nor is the Audi story before it That's called 'poorly engineered.' Over-engineered means that it not only accomplishes the job without adding extra steps, but it can accomplish even more - or be far stronger than what was needed - but it doesn't really mean that the owner should be put through more hassle to do the task or use the item.
Electric handbrakes. Yet to find the advantage of them. What makes it worse is you need a computer with special software just to do a simple job like replacing brake pads.
I still get amazed when I see a car motor... How well engineered they are... And then I also think that they are not made suddenly... It took decades to improvise them... Slowly making progress
10:15 that story sums up why gaming mice are overrated most of the time
4:29 Those shoes give me an idea:
I've always wanted a device that allows me to send and receive information between me and my UMPC without anyone seeing, so that I can keep working on it and/or look things up while I am having a conversation without seeming rude. I thought perhaps something in my shoes that I control using my toes might work but how do I get the information back? Vibrations! Do you like my idea? Let's make a business out of it: I do the programming and the interface design, you do the rest! Or, if you want to steal my idea, notify me and I will become your first customer!
The vibrating shoes do seem useful for blind people. But don't have much other practicality.
10:14 A4tech xl-755bk best gaming mouse, good editeable onboard macros (5 sets of 8, for each of 5 custom modes), high DPI, braided cable, long service life (if you clean it every once in a while). 25$
For its time, the PS2. Somewhere I heard a couple hundred of them were combined to make a supercomputer
I’ll take the roasting stick for my kids who never. Fail to try and move their marshmallow around and drop the stick
For that first one, some cleaner/lubrication would have probably fixed that. Grease it?
14:43 I can feel them. My first car was a 1993 Volvo 850 glt. I finally got a new car when the Volvo’s heater gave out. And by new, I mean my mother gave me her old 2001 Kia Sportage and traded the Volvo in, with trade in credit 4x what I paid for the dang thing. I didn’t even get $600 trade in credit on the Kia when I got my current vehicle, a 2011 Ford Fusion. I still miss that Volvo. $1900 was a lot to a 17 year old me, but it was worth it. Mom did help talk it down from 2600. That 700 saved went right into a new front axle, as the old one was close to breaking
“A cheap car radio that had buttons to increase the bass or tempo”
you could increase the tempo on the radio huh...thats pretty insane! (Obviously they meant “treble”)
Stop giving people who won't bother to learn to spell or type correctly a free pass. They wrote tempo and should have to carry the shame of not proofreading and then not bothering to edit their obvious mistake. And no, I don't give cell phone users or people using spell checkers any slack.
I remember seeing a movie in OmniMax and it wasn't pleasant. They put the dome on the ceiling so you had to really crane your neck to watch the movie. As if J.J. Abrams Star Trek films weren't painful enough.
My smartphone has a built-in lamp. How do I turn it on?
Step 1: Download a flashlight app.
Step 2: Install the flashlight app. Allow it to access your camera. Because the lamp is part of your camera. And the permission system doesn't distinguish between the two. Makes sense, right?
Step 3: Start the flashlight app. Wait until it has been fully loaded.
Step 4: Skip the ad.
Step 5: Tell the flashlight app to turn on the light by swiping the virtual on-screen knob into the correct direction. Because it's off by default. Even though the app doesn't do anything else.
Step 6: Realize you don't need the light anymore because you weren't fast enough and now it's too late.
The one about the aftermarket radio in the car sounds like he got something that was for an “audiofile” and he clearly wasn’t judging on the fact that he was annoyed he had more control of the sound quality
The video game thing was actually partially done in an old game game called *7.62 High Caliber*
It's a 3d Jagged Alliance 2 style game it since its Russian that means its buggy, unfinished, and not greatly translated. But it's fun as hell regardless. The attention to detail is so good.
4:53 the pz. 7 was the Löwe. Both tigers were designated the pz. 6
H&K g11, clocks are not supposed to shoot bullets
I can name a use for every button of my mouse, every key of my keyboard, every button of my controller, and every hardware button of my smartphone, but not every button of my TV's remote controller. And yet, it's supposed to be the easiest possible interface to use for old people?
To everyone complaining about ads either buy ad block or quit grousing.
Kathy B.
18:00 gave me aneurisms
It makes sense that the Hoover Dam was overengineered, we were in the middle of the Depression and the government was desperately trying to create jobs to keep people employed in some capacity.
I'm not really tech savvy but I looked up those computer mousses and oml they are the most stupidest looking pieces of tech I've ever seen😂
They need to stop overdoing it and just sell regular, basic stuff that is the necessities with no extra.
That Juicero was even more over engineered than described. They went all out on build quality. They used solid aluminum blocks, heavy duty hydraulics & motors, etc. The thing could easily crush a real orange without any effort. I think they intended something along those lines but realized too late that the juice packets couldn't be done they way they intended but were too far into the development to back it up to a less engineered version. It's something like $400 worth of parts alone, which meant cost margin was shot.
6:40 some people forget that Harland an Wolf were the best ship builder's of their time and the sister ship to the titanic the Britannic survived the fist and second world wars as a troop carrier/ hospital ship taking much more dangerous routes from Canada to France and was only scrapped due to that style of ship becoming effectively useless due to air travel and that ship crashed several times but never sank
Getting rid if the headphone jack on the iphone just to make .00000000001% lighter and .00000000001% thinner so now I have to buy new wireless headphones and cant use anything else or have to buy the adaptor and I also cant charge my phone and listen with headphones at the same time because theres only then one port for that now. Again...just to make it .0000000000001% thinner and lighter which I couldn’t care less about!
Some companies actually allows it's employees to listen to music while working. Most of the companies I where hired to allowed it. I have had a wireless headphone for atleast 5 years. No wires in the way disturbing work anywhere. I don't miss the cabled headphones with wires disturbing work. I love the wireless headphones and the removal of the headphonejack made no diffrence to me. :D
Greatings from a Samsunguser :D
It's not to make the phones lighter or thinner, that's just the excuse they use. The point is to force you to buy the more expensive and easier to lose wireless earphones.
16:58 Fingerprint scanning is already over engineered. It's not as reliable as it seems, it doesn't work if you cut your finger, you cannot lend your fingerprint to anyone else, you cannot tell someone your fingerprint so they can use your phone on your behalf, your fingerprint can be easily hacked by someone dusting your workplace for fingerprints, if someone successfully hacks your fingerprint you cannot change it, and if you die your family cannot access your data. Oh, and if you are drunk or asleep someone can just put your finger onto your phone and get access to it. Also, does Apple collect my fingerprint? The only advantage? It's slightly faster than entering a multi-digit code or a swiping gesture.
A Revoltech action figure. The figures are great, but they have WAAAAAY too many joints.
Most cruise ships nowadays can still only take 2 breached compartments.
13:54 and that's why the Hoover would still stand even hundreds of years.into the future, baring any serious damage from external sources
Cars made by Bugatti.
Quad turbo 16 cylinder just to make 1000HP lmao
Meanwhile other supercars and small aftermarket modders are pushing over 2000HP reliably with just twin turbo v8s or v10s.
Not a lot of v10s make that much unless they have a turbo. I guess a twin turbo Gallardo would make that much.
But ya there over Engineered
Lmfao the flashlight one, i bought a bunch of stuff for a bugout bag/disaster kit and opted for the cheaper flashlight with "Multiple brightness settings"
The frickin thing has like 15 different settings, and only one button. The first setting is perfect, and it has a telescopic housing so can manipulate the beam, but then i have to cycle through 14 other settings to turn the damn thing off lol
The couch console: i have bought one these for me to have a simple life right one day d\tried seeing some of the faults of it, right well I tested it with my soda by trying to make it spill well it did in the most dumbest way possible , i spilled it by tilting it so much that it spilled on my new suit on my bed, i thought that was just karma
I miss power seatbelts, you get in then it moves backward and falls down and bam your buckled in. Pop up headlights, ugh I love and miss 90's cars. My mom had a mitsubishi eclipse had power seat belts, pop up headlights everything I miss that car. She's had some cool cars in her day, FC RX7, ect.
I always find it bizarre how computers keep getting smaller while TVs keep getting bigger!
Like, big TVs are bulky and expensive and hard to clean and heavy and easily breakable and do you really have room for it? Shouldn't there be projectors of comparable quality by now?
Then there is the aspect ratio. Our first TV was 4:3 so movies would always have black bars. Then we switched to a 16:9 TV but now movies are 21:9 so the black bars are still there!
With computers, well, I've always used a desktop computer for my entire life. If I had ever used a laptop I could have carried it anywhere and would have lost it by now.
Saab 900 was a nightmare regardless.
5:28 landcruiser p1000 ratte
Sorry to burst you bubble but it was nothing more than a name and a drawing. Even they weren't insane enough to actually try making a prototype.
In the past, every computer and every calculator used to support BASIC. And every math school book taught you how to program in BASIC. Everyone who owned a computer knew how to write programs on it. Nowadays, if you want to write a program, you'll have to download a program and then watch some online tutorials on how to use it, both of which require you to have internet. Why doesn't Windows come with a built-in tutorial on how to program in Microsoft Visual C++ or Microsoft .NET? Compared to the past, present computers are just under engineered. Even though they can do so much more now.
Automobiles. I truly believe all yhe thousand things under the hood could be condensed/improved to not be 70 different moving parts made to eventually fail
Am i the only person that lets their marshmallow catch on fire?
kudos to the hoover dam engineers though, they wanted to be very f*cking sure that no amount of water pressure would knock that thing down
also it supports a 2 lane road which is pretty sweet
Imagine you're programming an RPG. The player will enter their name and your dialog system has to support texts that will contain the player's name. So you write "Hello, {name}. Welcome to this game." and make it so that every instance of "{name}" is replaced with the player's name. Now imagine giving the player the option to choose their gender. So you add "{he/she}" and "{his/her}" and "{himself/herself}" and "{man/woman}" and "{wizard/witch}" and so on. So far so good. But now imagine you want to be inclusive to LGBT people and therefore add non-binary/intersex/hermaphrodite/queer/genderfluid/thirdgender/genderless/agender people, as well, so you give players to select their preferred pronoun out of "he", "she", "it", "they", "one", "ip", "ne", "nis", "hiser", "thon", "hi", "hes", "hem", "ir", "hizer", "ons", "e", "ith", "his-her", "ze", "xe", "friend", "shklee", "a", "ou", "yo", "ae", "co", "ve", "per", "ey", "hu", "fae", a nounself pronoun, a technopronoun, alternating pronouns, no pronoun at all, or a completely new pronoun system. How hard would it be to invent such a dialog system and would it be overengineered? Keep in mind that the system would have to be designed separately for every language the game could possibly support!
Does anyone use any setting on the microwave other than the quick start +30 second button? I don't think I know what all the others do
They did a study and 90% of the time people just reheat on high. The microwave is a perfect example of adding features to get you to upgrade. Howver, the first microwave to come out with volumn control, so I dont wake the whole house getting a late night snack, will have my money. BEEP, BEEP, BEEP !
It usually has a sticker that says
"Made in Germany"
Tv's these days have gotten a lot more complicated, lol.
Why was the titanic one in there? They talked about how great it was and ahead of its time it was so that doesnt fit in this thread of OVER thought....
Anything with the three pointed star on it. Just a bunch of engineers trying to justify their pay grade.
A hotdog stand
Is the Rube Goldberg Device the go-to example for something being over engineered?
18:42 I didn't understand a word!
Porsche cup holders. Specifically their 911 carera, Boxter, and cayman models
Pretty much any software tech made by Microsoft. Not just Microsoft Office either. Their frameworks and tools tend to be bloated, needlessly complicated monstrosities with lots of points of failure due to feature bloat and an attempt to make the frameworks fit every single conceivable need.
I don't like devices that require you to download an app to use them when a simple remote-controller could have done the same.
It's not that I don't want them to collect my private data, it's just that my phone has disk space problems, an unreliable battery, a slow Android 4.0.3 operating system that cannot be upgraded, and I want to use it for other things! Also, what about customers who don't even have a smartphone?
If I wanted to control your device using my phone I would by a MicroBot Push!
Anything made by Germans. It is actually a joke in the firearms community that if you gave German engineer a bunch of parts three hours and no supervision you will always get a rapid-firing cookoo clock at the end. FG-42 is a good example of them over-engineering. What they needed was a rifle that could equipped for paratroopers. What they ordered was a gun that part machine gun, part SMG, and part precision rifle with an open bolt setting for full-auto, closed-bolt setting for semi-auto, bipod, scope, bayonet, and grenade adapter. The designers joked they were asked to make egg-laying wooly dairy pig and the gun was so complex that is is known to break itself when fired full auto. Exhibit B, The Tiger tank prototype made by Porsche which used dual engines to power to dual electric motors to drive the tank. It had a bad habit of bursting to flames from driving steep inclines and was wisely not adopted but refitted to be used as tank destroyers dubbed the Ferdinand. Exhibit C is the G41 M rifle. Once again the problems is with the specifications that the rifle couldn't have any holes drilled into it from the outside so it uses a very complex gas trap action and it also had be able to use as a bolt-action rifle if needed. It was beaten by the G41 W by a different company who realized how absurd the demands were and ignored resulting in a better gun then the G41 M which was made to the letter. Also they used to hang Christmas Trees from the ceiling.
i dunno ... beer is rediciously simple
schönen Abend noch
Phones tech companies doesn’t want us to repair our own phones so they make them overly complicated to fix and so we have to go to the tech companies store and buy a new one if your old phone breaks
That reminds me of all those spaceships in science-fiction movies. They always have lots of buttons and show you lots of graphs showcasing who-knows-what. Is this really the interface of the future? I mean, if you look at planes and rockets and sound studios and even some MMORPGs now they really do have lots of buttons and lots of graphs, but those interfaces are just the ones in front of your seat, while the graphs and buttons in the science-fiction movies have the same density but fill out the entire room where the crew is in! Can't those things be automated with future AI technology, only showing you the buttons and graphs when they become necessary? Shouldn't interfaces be easy to use?
That was a different time. Apollo 11 etc. were just like that, buttons and switches everywhere. The Shuttle isn't any different either.
And it's true in just about EVERY genre that the media are lagging behind current tech by decades unless ordered otherwise. To a degree, it's because the people making movies remember things from the years when they watched movies themselves, which tends to be decades ago. For example, we still get modem connection sounds (obsolete in many nations for almost two decades), dogfights within visual range (rare since the Vietnam War), and conventional battleships (obsolete since WWII, and even _during_ WWII, although it took all powers a few years to realize it).
Back to the spacecraft with buttons/switches everywhere: respect to the few films where all buttons are recessed and switches have tiny guardrails to prevent any contact by accident. Zero G is no joke when it comes to safety issues. (BTW, you might have heard that anecdote that NASA spent a million to develop a pen that writes in zero g, while the Soviets just used pencils. That was because the Soviet space program used air but the U.S. program used pure oxygen. Graphite burns like a torch in that atmosphere; they couldn't simply resort to pencils. They couldn't simply switch to air either; that would have increased the weight of the capsule, necessitating the design of a stronger rocket. It wasn't NASA that paid that million either.)
Almost everything in Sky Mall magazine.
Keyed locks are easy to pick...
Nuclear things. I had a book of useless instructions including seven pages detailing one washer.
My brain
Very complex but useless and doesn't function
BMW engines. Not the engines per se, but things that are otherwise easy to access for maintenance in other makes. Change your spark plugs? You have to all but remove the fvcking engine block. WHY?!
I saw a video about rebuilding the engine in a z4. apparently, they thought it would be a good idea to put the timing chain on the back of the engine. if you're building an engine on a desk, it doesn't really matter, but most mechanics rebuild an engine while it's attached to an engine stand, which attaches to the back of the engine. by putting the timing chain on the back of the engine, they made it impossible to replace it or to rebuild the engine unless the engine was removed from the car and mounted on a stand designed specifically for that engine.
Reminds me of the HP laptop I worked on where I had to disconnect and remove the entire motherboard to replace the CMOS battery.
18:02 Are they trolling? Or are they saying words that mean actual things in the context they're presented?
The panther tank