From: Graham Hopkins (ghopkins@wolf-rock.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2008 - 06:43:49 ART
Ah statistics, 70% of then are made up you know. North America is actually
2.5 miles from Asia, although I wouldn't advocate wandering around Alaska
looking for a Cisco lab.
Distance isn't the only factor its much easier for a US Resident to fly to
a US city than it is for many people to travel to another country, Visas,
language etc
Seriously though, isn't this list about helping people with their study and
not about who has the hardest journey, takes the lab most often, can
configure a switch blindfolded etc.
Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
To: "'nortic @hackermail.com'" <nortic@hackermail.com>; "'Narbik
Kocharians'" <narbikk@gmail.com>
Cc: "'Cisco certification'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: Good job CISCO!!!!
> Last time I checked 77% of the labs were not in the United States...
> Unless
> we annexed
>
> Sao Paulo, Brazil
> Brussels, Belgium
> Dubai, UAE
> Tokyo, Japan
> Hong Kong, China
> Sydney, Australia
> Bangalore, India
>
> So, Mr. Geography, I'm guessing here, but about 70% of the WORLD'S
> POPULATION lives closer to one of those labs, than 70% percent of
> Americans
> live to San Jose or RTP.
>
> The United States is the 4th largest country in the world, and North
> America
> is 3000 Miles from Europe and 7,000+ Miles from ASIA. It seems to me the
> lab
> geography would favor EMEA/ASIA on getting to the lab...
>
> Now go back in put some more thought into YOUR COMMENTS!!!
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nortic @hackermail.com [mailto:nortic@hackermail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:05 AM
> To: Narbik Kocharians; Joseph Brunner
> Cc: Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: Good job CISCO!!!!
>
> How much thought did you guys put into your comments?
>
> For the rest of the world, (no not that small country called the US of A),
> its not a drive down to RTP/San Jose to sit the lab
>
>
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Narbik Kocharians" <narbikk@gmail.com>
>> To: "Joseph Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
>> Subject: Re: Good job CISCO!!!!
>> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:19:11 -0700
>>
>>
>> I will vote for that.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > THANK GOD!!!
>> >
>> > Lets start by invalidating ALL previously obtained prometric/VUE
>> > certifications... and requiring CCIE's pass the LAB not just the
>> > written
>> > every 2 years...
>> >
>> > -Joe
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>> > Michael Jones
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:14 PM
>> > To: Cisco certification
>> > Subject: Good job CISCO!!!!
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
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