As someone who has recently completed an undergraduate degree in engineering, I completely agree with your thoughts. I began my M.Sc. this year, which means I'm mired in lit review for my thesis project. I've been working my way through a few older textbooks, and am floored by the difference in quality in terms of presentation of material. These texts present matarial in a clear, concise, and robust manner. My undergraduate textbook in electromagnetics is embarrassingly hand-wavy in comparison to its equivalent written in the early 60's. All the examples and short-sighted analogies in the world won't help if they come at the expense of understanding fundamentals, but I guess I think differently than the publishers.

Agreed. Your method doesn't even have the requirement of snow being on the hill!

In general, drive and passion for what you do will lead to success no matter what field you work in.

You could have taken apart a computer during the flight?

But Sony does care about the customer's rights. Such rights include your right to give Sony money, your right to give Sony access to your computer (amongst other things), and your right to give up other, meaningless rights, such as fair use.

This makes sense, seeing as you'd need that leather lining to stomach English cooking. To those about to mod me down, I love Yorkshire pudding! Please take that into consideration before you obliterate me.