From: nortic @hackermail.com (@hackermail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2008 - 09:22:21 ART
According to the US of A intel its the 5th largest "country" (not 4th)
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html
I thought the 70% of of the world population lives closer to a lab than 70% of americans was hilarious, so I drew you a picture of the world, lab locations and 4-5hour flight radius.
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/ccielabs/map-labs.jpg
It appears that its more a case of 100% of americans live closer to a lab than 70% of the world population. China and India skew the stats a bit.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
> To: "'nortic @hackermail.com'" <nortic@hackermail.com>, "'Narbik Kocharians'" <narbikk@gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Good job CISCO!!!!
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:19:04 -0400
>
>
> 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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