The Maori (sorry but I can't be buggered to copy and paste all the macrons) and Tahitian and Hawai'ian navigators had a 32 point compass rose based on the stars. Furthermore, they didn't set out blindly in a Great Fleet; they migrated over time, and there were voyages back and forth among the Polynesian islands. "Without navigational tools" sort of discounts how useful the stars can be.

I am defined by my .emacs and .bashrc, so the computer might be generic in the sense that it is mass produced, but you can find out more about me than you can about Macarthy from his Olivetti.

I'm an electrical engineer at an American college with a bilateral agreement with CTU. They have a very different but still interesting English language engineering program, and a few CS classes. The school is free if you speak Czech (unlikely), and not too expensive if you only speak English. They are very amenable to fitting their schedule to yours if your school is on any kind of werid system (we have 3 10-week terms instead of two semesters, so we took our exams and left early without any problem) Prague is the mst dynamic and amazing city too, and the Czech Crown makes everything a bargain. Czech out their courses (hah!) to see if there is anything that grabs you. http://fel.cvut.cz/en/

Geez, I'd hate to work on a project that was even nominally the successor to the ROKR.