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It has been coming these past few years with quality going down the drain since 2005'ish (or a bit after, mine is from 2005 and is an excellent instrument). Their acquisitions all over the place didn't do them much good.
My guess is they will sell most of their non-core assets and try to find some investors for the core products.
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Quote: Keep churning out Les Pauls and SGs!
That's what I thought, then a guitarist friend of mine (I'm a bass player) showed me the massive difference between old 50's & 60's Les Paul (which he had just inherited) and his 1994 model he had from new. The wood that was used in the '60s was older growth, not intensively grown meaning it was denser where as new growth wood is less dense. Gibson made a big thin out of tone which has changed despite there best efforts. The issue was pretty much the same when Fender were facing it the 1980's , combined with a Chairman who did his best to spread out to many weird and wonderful things the holding company looks ill. I don't imagine the brand will fall completely, I wonder if it comes to that wether Legend will look to pick it up?
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The quality of the wood has to affect every guitar made, so wont make Gibsons worse than any other. I can only blame it on ridiculous management.
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True, but Fender almost bit it and came back. The wood issue affects all of the makers today. I think the actual fault was taking over companies in trouble and wasting there assets, with out any benefit...
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They are costly and money are scarcer, any guitar can sound better with digital sound editing (which is cheaper and cheaper), rock is dying. Three good reasons to fall.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: They are costly and money are scarcer,
Goods have never been as cheap as today.
den2k88 wrote: any guitar can sound better with digital sound editing
That is just not true. You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital.
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Quote: That is just not true. You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital. Preach!
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As in you agree with me?
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Yup!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: You can not copy the analogue sound of a valve amp with digital. With the current (last 2 decades + punk) trends of music who cares? On one side we had indie metal and crossover with bands like System of a Down, Korn, Deftones, Nirvana who play heavily distorted. On the other we had faux rock like Nickelback who play three chords without much care.
And I'm naming only rock and metal since pop moved to computer generated music a long time ago, rap/hip hop/whatever use stolen bases and riffs from the beginning and dance/house/club/electronic/whatever uses synthetizers in the best of cases.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Any style of guitar music sounds better through a valve amp
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Time to start buying up some guitars it looks like.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Munchies_Matt wrote: What the hell kind of moronic management have they had in there?
Exactly.
The kind that goes out and buys "consumer oriented" companies for no apparent reason.
Of course, the Feds going after them because the wood was naughty didn't help.
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....because for the past 1 or so weeks, i'm being automatically logged out of codeproject randomly!!
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Chris would appreciate your help. If you could capture the codeproject cookies for him (the ones marked idtag, vk and lck). Also, try closing the browser and reopening without logging in manually to see if the auto log in kicks in.
This space for rent
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devenv.exe wrote: randomly No such thing in computers.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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This seems unusual ... I use mostly IE11 and sometimes Edge, and in both cases the CP-login remains stable - never saw a problem with it so far ...
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The company I work for produces a software utility package for our OEM clients, and the executable must be personalised for each client. Does anyone have recommendations for a software package that can do the following:
- Insert personalised binary information in the application, without requiring recompilation of the application
- Will sign the application after the information is inserted (NICE TO HAVE)
- Works on Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) executable formats
The host O/S is immaterial.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Looks like someone else tried something similar 7 years ago.
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I don't know an existing utility. But if you have declared a block of fixed size static memory for your binary data in the application it can be replaced by a simple self written tool that looks for that (using a signature) and overwrites the data in the executable file. Afterwards you can sign the application as required.
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Except for the signing, much like what I did to DOS's command.com file. You simply replace a code block with one of a size less than or equal to the existing block. If it includes items such as strings, you may have to consider that ASCII-Z terminator!
Brings back such nice memories - partly because I was so much younger.
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#if preprocessor directive (C# Reference) | Microsoft Docs[^]
You can specify which to include when compiling for the command-line.
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Sounds like someone guarding a musical composition gets in a spin." (10)
Good luck.
Andy B
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Centrifuge ?
Sounds like Sentry
Fuge = piece of music - although I think it's fugue
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done! I was hoping the 'sounds like' bit would carry over into the Fugue - sounds a bit like 'fuge'.
Anyway, well done again .
Andy B
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