From: Frank Jimenez (franjime@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 23:18:08 GMT-3
Not everyday a luminary in the computing world passes away:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
Some notable quotes:
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in:8000/~rkj/dijkstraquotes.html
I still remember sitting in on some of his lectures back when I was
attending UT in the late 80's. (God, am I already *that* old?) Truly a
loss.
IF you don't know why his name is relevant to a Cisco CCIE study group,
THEN GOTO studying_some_more;
Frank Jimenez, CCIE #5738
franjime@cisco.com
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Omar Masood
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 1999 7:58 PM
To: Michael Snyder; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: 200 per month.
thank you for the info, hope people starting listening and stop typing
more crap up **Omar Masood 360**
e/m: omarmasood360@hotmail.com
or: omarmasood@aol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Snyder" <msnyder@ldd.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:34 AM
Subject: 200 per month.
> Just wanted to point out that there are reasons that number is so
> high.
>
>
> Many people started studying early in the year 2001. Many people from
> that group have taken the lab more than once since 2001. Yes, our
> studying material has gotten better, from the sheer number of people
> working together at this goal. Think of NASA with 10s of thousands
> of people working together for a common goal.
>
> The more troublesome protocols like appletalk, atm lane, and vines
> were removed from the test last year, allowing us to use a more narrow
> focus on what was left.
>
> Groupstudy has allowed us to match wits with the lab and win. I mean
> this in the sense of a study group of 3000 people working together.
>
> But about the comments of cheating and nda problems. I believe it is
> human nature to have some degree of this, but its not the reason the
> pass rate is so high.
>
> I think the main reason is the competence of our members, the number
> of online study labs, the number of home labs. In short we have
> people who could design a new lab exam every morning before 7 am and
> give the real proctors a run for there money. We dont need cheating
> to pass, we got the real thing with the real equipment sitting in our
> living rooms.
>
> In other words, we have met the enemy and beat them. Thats why the
> pass rate is 200 a month.
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