Noooo, and other such expressions of disbelief
I often use Merriam-Webster to lookup spelling, usages, or origins of words. I went there today to lookup multipuropse. I was given the following definition:
Main Entry: multipurpose
multipurpose is one of more than 1,000,000 entries available at Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com. Click here to start your free trial!
That means that I need to shell out $30.00 a year to use a bloody online dictionary! Look, I own a hard copy of Merriam-Webster (OK, so it’s a 1979 copy, but still…)–why should I pay to use the online version?
Currently looking for a new dictionary–no “google: define multipurpose” doesn’t cut it. 
On a very different note, we went to a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel by our local household acting group (AAA). It was totally awesome, and I was very impressed! 
On another note, I can officially say that Qt absolutely rocks! I’ve been playing around with writing KDE applications, and have found Qt very easy to program in. Compared to GTK+, Qt totally wins for ease-of-use. You don’t even need to know C++ (I am a living, walking, and talking example of that!) Look at this code for opening a file and reading it into a QTextEdit (yes, it’s susposed to be indented, but WordPress is screwing it up):
QFile file;
QDir::setCurrent("/home/taj");
file.setName(".packages/openttd/eula");
if ( file.open(IO_ReadOnly) ) {
QTextStream t( &file );
line = t.read();
editEula->setText(line);
file.close();
}
Tell me that isn’t easy! I’m sure it could be optimized some more, but it sure is nice and clean.
Yay Qt!
July 5th, 2005 at 9:53 am
What is the world coming to? You can’t even get what a word means without shelling out $$$. I gues it’s back to the olden golden days when you had to buy your encyclopedia and dictionary from the door to door salesman.
Yeah, our robotics lab was very excited about the upcoming release of QT 4.0 because it was coming out for Windows too. A couple years ago, Trolltech wrote a special QT Windows version (3.3 or something) for inclusion with a QT programming book. We used that a bit and were really impressed. We were going to swap over and use it as our official GUI widget library. Unfortunately, the non-commercial QT 4 version doesn’t integrate into Visual C++ (like the older one), so we would have to use MinGW. Which simply won’t cut it for us. So we were very disappointed.
July 15th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
dictionary.com doesnt work for you? built into firefox?