Re: Irregulars question: Number of characters in a cell in Excel

2002-12-12 Thread freewire1
LEN(B1) in cell C1 (as in your example) will do it. I just tried it with your example and it returned 22. On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:26:46 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote: Is there a way to have Excel tell me the number of characters including spaces in a cell? For example, row 1 column B might

Re: Irregulars question: Number of characters in a cell in Excel

2002-12-12 Thread freewire1
No problem. I have just spent the last 2 hours myself working on a problem that wasn't really there. Better get our tinfoil hats on. :) Dean On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:54:16 -0600, Reggie Bautista wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LEN(B1) in cell C1 (as in your example) will do it. I just tried it

Re: SCOUTED: Segway scooter hot seller online

2003-01-01 Thread freewire1
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 17:25:30 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: So I see in the Segway and (hopefully) its descendants a means to move towards a smaller, more efficient means of transportation. How is it more efficient for commuting than other forms of single person transportation that use very little

Re: N Korea threatens to 'destroy world'

2003-01-01 Thread freewire1
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 22:01:29 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: At 08:50 PM 12/27/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote: We were _extremely_ fortunate that the USSR was a conservative government. It went gently into that good night. I shudder to think of what would happen if the leadership didn't care if the

Re: More Efficient Solar Cell

2003-01-02 Thread freewire1
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 00:04:26 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: In this months issue, Scientific American honored the National Energy Resources Laboratory and Spectrolab for constructing the most efficient land-based solar cell. ...the cells converted 34% of the energy in sunlight to electricity

Re: SCOUTED: Segway scooter hot seller online

2003-01-04 Thread freewire1
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:41:35 -0600, Dan Minette wrote: Hmm, what fraction of verbal converations between people utilize webcams now? We do have the cheap bandwidth needed to make that possible. I don't know what the fraction is but that is irrelevant. It is used by people who need it or wish to

Re: Backneck barcode removable tatoos

2003-01-18 Thread freewire1
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:48:42 -, Alberto Monteiro wrote: :-) My daughter Natalia, a Dark Angel fan, wants to know where she can find removable tatoos in the form of barcodes, so that she will look like 452 If you have access to a laser printer, you could try making the bar code in a paint

Re: NASA Chief Outlines New Nuclear, Space Plane Efforts

2003-01-26 Thread freewire1
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:19:25 -0500, Kevin Tarr wrote: Now now. Three mile island has the river water three times removed from the reactor. It cools the water that cools the water that cools the reactor. And it's used in the cooling towers. And they keep a lot on site, they don't constantly take

Re: Iraq, Iran to Chair UN Disarmament Conference

2003-02-01 Thread freewire1
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:20:40 -0800 (PST), J.D. Giorgis wrote: and Libya is chairing the Commission on Human Rights. File this as Reason #3462 why the UN system is broken... The irony is overwhelming, a U.S. diplomat said. The conference chair helps organize the work of the conference and

Re: scouted: Francyphilis

2003-02-01 Thread freewire1
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:54:48 -0600, Steve Sloan II wrote: Miller, Jeffrey wrote: Nah.. I'm a freak who spells things correctly (colour, theatre, etc) so you don't strike me as terribly, well, odd ;) That's not correct spelling. It's merely *French* spelling, which leads nicely back to the

Re: Analyze this? (attn Dan, Erik, Gautam)

2003-02-01 Thread freewire1
On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 18:32:17 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: Someone on one of my other lists posted this link: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/28/1043534050248.html My BS detector started going off at the sentence I am not a crank. :) Anyone better at ferreting out the BS in the details

Re: The rapid decline of the Sci-Fi Channel....

2003-02-16 Thread freewire1
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:45:39 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: Matt Grimaldi wrote: That being said, there really was no excuse for showing The Flintstones. I dunno - he had some pretty cool technology - way ahead of its time... :-) The Flintstones was very SF. With time machines, invisibility,

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/FantasyMovieSoundtrack?]

2003-03-02 Thread freewire1
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:44:39 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: I've used VBA quite a bit, almost exclusively in Excel manipulating test data. I now program quite a bit in LabView... I'm sure there are a few opinions about that particular language if you are familiar with it. Any volunteers? 8^) I

Re: Computer Languages [was: Your Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Movie Soundtrack?]

2003-03-02 Thread freewire1
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:16:15 -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: Anyone want to comment here on APL? I would love to but don't I need a special keyboard? :) Dean ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Another breed of international criminals: Patients (not L3)

2003-03-09 Thread freewire1
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:54:52 -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote: We in Canada are having our own tug-o-war regarding this issue and my interest in what happens in the USA is because having a 1000 lbs. gorilla as neighbour will have an influnce in our policies. Anti-American MP's with big mouths do tend to

Re: Irregulars Question: Booting from USB HD

2003-03-15 Thread freewire1
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:12:36 +, William T Goodall wrote: So far, I haven't seen any computers that had USB as a boot option. (I recently rolled out five brand new Pentium-4 IBM NetVista PC's, and even those didn't have that option.) Macs have been able to use a USB drive (HD or CD) as

Re: We Can make Fuel Cells Happen

2003-03-16 Thread freewire1
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:08:55 -0500 (EST), John D. Giorgis wrote: An interesting article on how to make fuel cells a reality: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/hydrogen.html I'm sure that Dan M. will have comments... and before he does, here is a counterpoint:

Re: RE: Corrected French history (was RE: Deadlier Than War)

2003-03-16 Thread freewire1
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 11:05:53 -0500 (EST), John D. Giorgis wrote: ---Original Message--- From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's also the matter of French preservation of language and culture. It is a country where it can be illegal to use a foreign word in business. When computers

Re: You know what would be cool?

2003-03-25 Thread freewire1
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:58:44 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: You know what would really be cool? It would be cool if there were some sort of substance that totally dissolved plant material, but left animal flesh totally untouched. 'Cause if there were something like that, we could all have enemas

Re: Saddam is not only polarizing the Arab nations...

2003-03-27 Thread freewire1
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:34:36 -0500, Han Tacoma wrote: I know there's a difference of opinion..., and yet..., There seems to be a significant, or at least vocal, subset of Americans that find enemies wherever they look. I think the with us or against us philosophy is mostly responsible for it as

Re: Saddam is not only polarizing the Arab nations...

2003-03-30 Thread freewire1
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:10:03 -0500, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote: I actually think that Chrétien has gone with his principles on this issue. He wants to have an actual 'international community' and believes the UN is the closest thing to getting one. You are probably right. As inconsistent as his

Re: christian vultures circling iraq ready to strike

2003-04-02 Thread freewire1
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:32:11 -0600, The Fool wrote: http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/okeefe032603.html Two leading evangelical Christian missionary organizations said Tuesday that they have teams of workers poised to enter Iraq to address the physical and spiritual needs of a large Muslim

Re: The Next Big Thing: Re: Peter Arnett has negative effect onratings

2003-04-05 Thread freewire1
On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:52:19 -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: As for the rest of your proposed coalition, the Malaysian regime is founded upon the principle of oppressing their ethnic-Chinese majority in favor of their ethnic-Malay minority. The Chinese and Malaysians simply hate each other, and

Re: L3: Meet Canada The Global Arms Dealer

2003-06-05 Thread freewire1
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 16:35:00 -0400, Han Tacoma wrote: I'm appalled; should make the list's hawks less anti-canadian, I guess. Meet Canada The Global Arms Dealer by Stephen James-Kerr; May 25, 2003 This guy sounds like he thinks he's blown the lid off something. Canada's participation in the war

Re: The Miniature Earth

2003-04-12 Thread freewire1
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:04:38 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 08:38:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How exactly, does the concept of sustainability preclude technology? Or are you reserving the term, and concept, for use only by tree-hugging luddites living in communes? Here