emachines in Big Trouble?

It looks like emachines has trouble coming from many sides. This story at News.com makes it sound like things are so bad that the company's upper management ought to commit hari-kari. This is sad; I bought one of their early units for my wife and, even if it's not the world's greatest PC, it was a good value for the money. I'd hate to see this fine low-cost vendor go away. We need companies like this to keep the "biggies" on their toes. (Thanks go to NetSlave Steve Gilliard for this lead.)

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Re:The correct word is "hara kiri", btw.

[GoRK]

The word Harakiri translates roughly as "gut cutting." It is a rougher term for "seppuku" which is the formal ritual suicide practiced in feudal Japan. Seppuku is usually performed because one disgraces himself, his family, or his people. Properly enacted, seppuku requires two people. The person enacting the suicide is to cut himself (females did not practice this) side to side across his stomach and then up to the base of his breastbone. His "second" then was to remove the man's head. Often, the second followed suit with his own suicide. The most interesting thing about the whole ordeal was that one was not to make a noise or show any pain while slicing himself up. If he did either of these, he failed the ritual and disgraced himself again in death.

Now please don't you clickey moderators go moderating this down as 'offtopic' It's on topic with this thread. Your karma will regret it!

~GoRK

The correct word is "hara kiri", btw.

[Wakko Warner]

Unless you're suggesting they commit dead Cubs announcers? :)

- A.P. (perhaps to CVS?)
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