On 5/28/2011 9:11 AM, jon@dakota-truck.net wrote:
> TerribleTom<silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> I actually meant it in a good way - "over engineered" in the sense
> that they built things a lot stronger than was actually necessary to
> accomplish the task at hand - not like today where it seems everything
> is designed at the altar of planned obsolescence.
>
>
Ahhh - I've always used that term to describe a situation where someone
"improved" on a design so much, to the point that it's either
unnecessarily over complicated or poorly designed.
Its like the man said "why is everything new and improved!? What the
hell did we use before? Old and crappy?"
When you have to remove the upper half of an engine just to change spark
plugs, or remove the entire front clip of a truck to change a headlight
bulb, in my opinion... some engineer somewhere got a little too design
happy.
-- terribletom
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