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  1. Only thing I can think of would be to create another account, pay for members on it for a month and change your display name to it. Then wait until your time's up to change and 'switch' the name by changing that one, and taking the name you want on your other account.

     

    Bit long winded for a name though. :P

  2. Well, to first develop in java you're going to need to get the JDK - easily obtainable from Oracle's site. Assuming that automatically adds to the classpath (sometimes it doesn't seem to), you should be fine to compile / run via a command-prompt.

     

    After that - I've personally got used to using an IDE but it can become too much of a dependency at times. ;) Personally, I use NetBeans, others that are strongly recommended are Eclipse and IntelliJ's IDEA.

     

    Really that comes down to personal preference a lot of the time, but I found Eclipse a bit... 'clunky', whereas NetBeans was quite nice and a more standardised interface - they'll all work though!

     

    On a side-note: Entering my second year in a week's time, we started with Java in the first year. :P What type of course is it?

  3. @Janakat,

     

    I don't think the discussion was around the Jagex employee's participation in the event, it was more a discussion of the part of each employee and the impact it would have on the work they do - mainly to discuss the disruption it has to the development projects and whether or not it would continue in the same capacity it has this year.

     

    My opinion would be that most are pretty pleased to see the effort put in by Jagex staff, but correct me if I'm wrong! :)

  4. Even so, a few days once in a year isn't going to kill Jagex. It's just like they've had a few extra days of holiday... it's no biggie :mellow:

    I'd have to agree here - considering the life-cycle of a single-project, is it really going to have that much of an impact? So long as time-schedules are relatively well followed, I'd imagine a team can usually factor development around that?

     

    Although yea, wasn't there so can't speak about the practicalities. :)

  5. That art is fantastic - I'm incredibly impressed by it, the latter ones in particular. I love the farming ones and their style is just brilliant - you're very talented!

     

    And, congratulations on the gallery-competition win! You definitely deserved that with the latest image.

  6. I also heard that summoning training was nerfed. That it is 1.1x the whole weekend regardless of what bonus multiplier is. Can somebody confirm this? If it is true then I guess one should wait until the multiplier is down to 1.1 before training summoning.

    I can't answer the herblore section of your post, but a quote from Mod Emilee on the September bonus-weekend official-forum post (QFC: 16-17-821-61539199) confirms the Summoning part:

     

    Following feedback from March’s Bonus XP Weekend, the boost to Summoning XP will be limited to 10% over the course of the four days.

  7. As I said on the details page, no personal data is even received by the extension. It doesn't even know your username because all the authentication is handled by jagex and the 3 cookies it created.

    Exactly why people need not worry much about these kind of extensions. Although of-course apprehension is both understood and a good trait to have. ;)

     

    I'm very happy with it, fits in lovely. :thumbup:

  8. I tend to assume it's purposeful mistakes as the sheer quantity of people doing so would surprise me otherwise.

     

    I do notice it and the decline is rather unfortunate - wouldn't it be useful if their language improved from the game rather than degraded? ;)

     

    Still, given the average age and the popularity of being silly within the game, it doesn't surprise me too much - it would be nice if it was different but some just like to follow the crowd.

  9. Macs won't last you any longer than pc's. Unless you're into graphic design, media related stuff a windows pc can do anything a mac can, and will cost a lot less + be familiar.

     

    If you are heavily into media related stuff though, I'd definitely recommend a mac. It's not like going to linux or anything, they're quite useable.

    Ah great, cheers for that y_guy! :)

     

    Graphics is...not my forte, so I reckon that points down the non-mac route then. Great to know!

  10. Checked UCAS today... "The current status of your Application is: Congratulations! Your place at The University of Salford (S03) to study Computer Science (G400) has been confirmed."

    :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

    Congrat's also! Computer Science is a great course, thoroughly enjoying it up here at Edinburgh Uni' - only trouble is the Maths for me! Had a resit just the other day (went fine thankfully!).

  11. Congrat's! :)

     

    Up here in Scotland it wasn't as difficult to get a place last year - I had an unconditional so can't say I know how it feels to have to wait off until you get results back - I imagine you'd be incredibly anxious though. Glad it all panned out fine!

     

    And yea - which course?

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