The Vanishing HailStorm

ElitusPrime writes ".NET My Services, Microsoft Corp's high-profile set of XML web services postponed eight months ago, seems to have dropped off the company's 2003 roadmap. .NET My Services, once codenamed Hailstorm, was to comprise 14 services including an electronic online address book and voice mail inbox and was once trumpeted as the vanguard of a .NET web services revolution by the company."

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Ah, another good SLaPing

[kfg]

(Slashdot Lexical Patrol)

This addendum may interest members:

"Usage Note: The traditional rule states that the whole comprises the parts and the parts compose the whole. In strict usage: The Union comprises 50 states. Fifty states compose (or constitute or make up) the Union. Even though careful writers often maintain this distinction, comprise is increasingly used in place of compose, especially in the passive: The Union is comprised of 50 states. Our surveys show that opposition to this usage is abating. In the 1960s, 53 percent of the Usage Panel found this usage unacceptable; in 1996, only 35 percent objected."

I guess that means if you say something is "comprised of" 14 elements you're 35% incorrect? Only 4.9 of the elements are actually "comprised of" and the remaining 9.1 are composed of.

Can't the editors get anything right?

KFG

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[Jugalator]

... hailstorms make YOU vanish!