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I have heard tales of mixed results when outsourcing web design abroad. Plenty of people have been happy with the results, whereas others have had problems or been very unsatisfied with what they got for their money. Like anything on the Internet, check it out first and be sure you're happy with what they're offering and that they will deliver. Get examples of past work, independent reviews of the company and look over them in detail before parting with any cash.Alternatively check out the link in my sig for my website. I have dabbled with Joomla in the past, but not recently, however.

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Not necessarily. An inertial reference frame is one where the observer's speed is 0 and every physical law obeys its standard form. In the example of the Earth and the plane, by standing on the Earth as an observer, you make it your inertial reference frame and define its speed as 0 (which makes sense, the Earth's speed relative to the Earth would be 0). This then means the plane is moving relative to you, and hence the value of v in the equation.

Yes. They're known as the Lorentz transforms and are used to change both time and position to account for relativistic effects. If you did take a view of the Earth from a distance, you would see the plane was moving faster than the Earth. Therefore the plane is travelling at a speed v relative to the Earth.

At the moment I believe atoms and small molecules are being used for various different uses in nanotechnology. The prefix 'nano-' actually means 10^-9 m. Atoms themselves are around 10 times smaller than this, so could technically be considered too small for nanotechnology Generally physics is considered an empirical science - proof is needed for a theory to be accepted. As part of this many people state that for something to be considered a theory it must also include a method for testing the theory experimentally. For example, you can test the laws of thermodynamics. This allowed them to be considered theories and then to move from theories to laws. Currently, string theory has no way to be proved or disproved. Therefore many people don't consider it a theory in the tradition sense.

Depending on the installation process for your distribution of choice, you have a few possibilities. Some distributions will ask if you want them to automatically wipe your hard drive and start from scratch. They'll configure all the partitions themselves and set themselves up. Some come with a partition tool, but will need you to do the work. In this case, delete all the partitions on the hard drive currently. Then create one partition of about 15GB and set its mount point as /. Create another partition of around 64GB and mount that as /home. Then use the last 1GB and set that to be used as swap. It's important to have that 1GB swap, so if you have to shrink one of the others, shrink the /home one down to give you the room for the swap. The advantage of a separate /home partition is that if you do something terrible to your installation you can reinstall but just format the / partition. This leaves your data intact between installations. If they don't have a partition tool in the installer then you will need to use another method to partition the drive. There are CDs you can download which let you partition the drive, so use one of those. Then set up the partitions as described above.

As far as I know there are no sites that let you track any random mobile number as it moves around. Firstly, that would be a colossal invasion of privacy. Secondly, most phones don't have GPS, so would have to be tracked by triangulation from mobile phone masts. That takes time and I imagine costs the mobile operator in the time it takes. Google Latitude is the closest I could find. It allows you to register your mobile with them, and it lets you see your friends' locations and people in the local area. It works on all Android phones, BlackBerrys, Symbians and most phones running Windows Mobile 5.0.

All I could find was a five year old article on fitting a basic home theatre PC inside a standard DVD player's shell. However, you will have some difficult work on your hands. For example, the author of that article had to dismantle their PSU from its case and manually fit it in the DVD player case, as a standard power supply (even a uATX one) was too big to fit. They also used a VIA CPU, which means space wasn't needed for a large CPU cooler and very little heat was generated, allowing for simpler cooling. With a P3, you're going to need a decent cooler to keep it working inside such a confined space, which might make your PC too loud to be useful. Finally, driving a 42" TV will need a good graphics card. Considering the sizes of current graphics cards, you'll have trouble trying to fit it into a DVD player's shell. The author of that article didn't use a separate graphics card (it was only driving a 20" portable TV) so didn't have that problem. You would also need to fit the graphics card flat on its side, rather than upright (if you know what I mean) - it would have to be parallel to the motherboard rather than the usual perpendicular. Either that or find a very tall DVD player There are a few motherboards that have onboard graphics good enough for HD now, but I doubt there are any for a P3 processor.

If it's not rebooting so much then the issue is likely hardware related. Whether it is still heat related, or something else, can be determined. Download an application called CoreTemp. Boot up your PC as normal and open CoreTemp. Note the maximum temperature for your CPU - you PC shuts off automatically when it reaches this temperature. Keep an eye on the temperature as you use the PC, or use the logging features to record the temperatures to a file. When the PC reboots, what is the temperature? (Or turn the PC back on and open the log file to see the last recorded temperature). If it is at or very near to the maximum then you need better cooling in your PC. If, however, it is not near the maximum temperature then you have other problems. They could be anything from a faulty PSU to bad memory. If it comes to it we can investigate these situations to narrow down the cause.

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With digital cameras you normally make the panorama on the PC afterwards. The best method is to use a tripod and take a sequence of shots as you move the camera round. Try to move the camera each time by about 1/3 to 1/2 of the width of the image, so at least half of the previous photo is visible on the screen. This helps to assemble the images on the PC. Then load the images on to your PC and use software to 'stitch' them together. My current application of choice is Hugin. The software should go through the images and find points that match up between images (hence why a lot of overlap is good), then arrange the photos into one large image. With this method you can also take panoramas vertically, or both horizontally and vertically to create a massive image of the scene in front of you. There are also options to correct the curving effect that comes into the images from assembling them.

For future reference, there are a few things you can do to stop this happening again:1. Fit dust filtersYou can buy dust filters to fit most intake fans, and these will prevent them drawing so much dust into your case. Once it's in there, it gets attracted to the components and sticks. If you stop it getting in in the first place, you go a long way to solving the problem.2. Vacuum the caseIf dust filters aren't an option, vacuum your case occasionally. There are special little vacuums you can get to do the job, or take the opposite route and used compressed air. Some say a household vacuum works just as well, but you'd have to be incredibly careful not to damage anything or suck up cables.3. Fit a new CPU fanIf clearing the dust out doesn't solve the problem for long, a new heatsink and fan on your CPU may improve things. There are quite a few decent, cheap HSFs available that will be better than the standard cooler most likely fitted at the moment. A good fan design can also help cool other components on the motherboard, helping the whole system run cooler.Which of these options you take, if any, depends on how long you want to keep the PC.

I haven't found a service that lets you make free VoIP to landline calls. I ended up getting Skype's package for about ?20 per year which lets you make unlimited calls to landlines for no extra cost, and includes a landline number that people can call you on from a landline phone. The only downside is Skype's call quality, which I have found to vary quite a bit (sometimes fine, sometimes poor, sometimes unusable).

We have quarks, gluons, neutrinos and all sorts of other things much smaller than protons and electrons. The problem with using them in nanotechnology varies between the particles, but they are numerous. Quarks can never be found alone (to our current knowledge) so offer no advantage over electrons. Gluons only exist to hold quarks together, so we can't do anything with them. Neutrinos are too unreactive - they pass through absolutely everything, we can't stop them and they are almost impossible to detect, so using them is practically impossible. If we could find one of these particles that we could control and use then that would be a breakthrough.

Mainly you detect its change in position relative to another object. So, if the distance between two cars decreases you can be confident there is some motion involved. How do we know which is moving? Use other reference points. If you can see one car is not moving relative to a nearby tree, you can say the other car is in motion relative to the first one. The difficulty comes when there are no other reference points. If you've ever been in a traffic jam, especially next to a truck, and the truck pulls away, you can appear to be moving backwards. As you have no other reference, this is one option. The other, of course, is that the truck has moved forwards. Until you look round and see you are still relative to other cars, trees, etc. it is impossible to tell. An absolute frame of reference is generally considered to be one where Newton's laws of motion are valid. The problem was with Newton's original definition. He assumed that the stars were stationary and therefore could be used to create a stationary reference frame. This is not true, as we now know. Einstein extended this to say an inertial reference frame was one where light travelled at the speed of light in all directions, irrespective of wavelength. However, Einstein also suggested we can't have an overarching inertial reference frame as it is impossible to tell if one exists. It is impossible to tell if a dropped object accelerates downwards due to gravity, or if everything else is moving upwards. As odd as that may sound, it is the same as the traffic jam analogy above. More generally than that. Time slows down on an object in motion relative to another. Generally the effect is only noticeable at near-light speed, but you can see it using an atomic clock and flying around the world. Comparing the clock to one that stayed on the ground during the flight, you will find they have measured a different elapsed time period.

The same problem occurs with length. What is length? Well it's the distance from point A to point B. That defines a distance as a distance - a pointless definition. However, my Physics work reveals a solution. Time is a 'fundamental unit' - it is indivisible. You can't define time in terms of anything else. You can quantify it, use it to measure things, but you can't split it up and explain it. There are seven of these units at the moment: kilogram (mass), second (time), Kelvin (temperature), mole (amount of substance), metre (length), Ampere (electrical current) and candela (luminous intensity). None of these can be defined in any other way.

Time is just a concept. It was originally created by splitting up the solar day (from sunrise to noon) into equal parts. Then some smart guy decided to come up with a more precise definition: a second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 cycles of microwave radiation of a particular frequency (related to the two lowest energy levels of a caesium-133 atom) measured at absolute zero and corrected for gravitational effects.As for providing a more general definition of time, that's a lot more difficult to do convincingly, so I will try my best a little later on

Freelance is mainly what I'm aiming at for the time being, although I have a three month summer holiday I can work through in a more permanent position if I want to. This is something I have been thinking about. I'm starting to learn bits of RoR, but I have not got anywhere near enough knowledge to offer it as a service. GIMP does have a Windows version, but yes, I'm working under Linux almost exclusively. This does rule Flash out, but a lot of the smaller elements of sites Flash is used for can be replicated with JS (a lot can be done with jQuery or script.aculo.us, etc.). I wouldn't be able to do sites entirely made in Flash, but that is something I can't really do a lot about until Adobe start making Linux versions of their software. When I have had people use these definitions before, as most do, I try my best to get more precise requirements from them. This is also why I do really quick sketches and get those approved before I move on - a pencil and paper sketch takes a couple of minutes and can be infinitely useful in determining requirements.

I'm starting to design websites for cash now, to fund myself through university, so I need to let people know I'm here. I'm looking for effective ideas for advertising a small web design business. For example, I looked at flyers, but are they a little out-dated for a web design business? And are they that effective - I know I throw a lot of flyers straight in the bin.Google AdWords and Yahoo! Advertising are also two options I've looked at, but are they that effective? How many people actually click the ads, and how much does it cost in the long term?What methods are people using to advertise their business? (Not just web design, anything). And how effective are people finding them? Would you say they are worth their cost? Are there any novel or interesting advertising ideas that are more than a silly gimmick?

I'm a student and to pay my fees I've decided to start doing paid web design. However, I'm not quite sure what is expected by clients when it comes to the actual process, from start to finish, of getting their site online. I have found very little information online about the steps professional web designers go through when creating websites. At the moment, I have the following as what I do when I design a website: Research the company/person - get a feel for the 'personality' (formal, modern, etc.) Get needs from the client Draw up a specification for the site Preliminary sketches (still by hand ) Take the best ideas and mock them up in the GIMP Present them to the client, get their feedback Pick one design, along with changes, and improve the mockup Compare to specification Fix problems, make improvements Code backend to the design (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, whatever is required) Add copy and images Launch site What do other people do when designing sites for other people? Especially if you do it professionally. I've based this on my knowledge from designing graphics, electronic products, problem solving and a little bit from my Physics textbooks If you were having a site designed for you, what would you expect from the designer, right from the moment you get in touch to the moment you part company? Are little incremental updates on progress good, or would you prefer milestones? Literally, any feedback or advice is greatly received Thank you all.

Depends on the person. For me, I want something I enjoy, and hopefully also does some genuine good for the world. I'm studying Physics at the moment, and I wouldn't mind being a researcher or a teacher. Both are things I would enjoy, and do some good. For other people I know that pay is more important, or getting a cool company car or whatever

You cannot state it has issues when it is pirated. If you're downloading an illegal version from a random source that has been hacked about to work and uses a fake licence key to get it to work, I'm amazed you'd expect it to work at all. I also don't understand how contacting Adobe is a senseless suggestion? With any Windows/Mac software I have a problem installing, contacting the creator is usually my first course of action. In this case, that's contacting Adobe. You would never have to use an illegal crack if you got the software legally. As a trial is legal, why not contact Adobe and ask for help?

Without contact information, how do you expect potential clients to contact you? Even if you provide contact information on paper, it is likely to get lost or forgotten, so you'll severely limit the amount of business you get. Just a few little issues that need fixing. Firstly, the banner and menu at the top don't actually line up with the content. The top section is a few pixels further to the left compared to the bottom. Also, as you scroll, the grey line between the content and the menu changes size - keeping it constant would look a little better.

If you're having problems with installation then contact Adobe and ask for help (they have an online support system you can use). When you tell them you got it from a torrent, make sure you provide your name and address and they will send round some friendly police officers to help you out . If you want it to install correctly then buy it legally, either as a download from Adobe or a physical CD. Alternatively, use free software like The GIMP.

If you instructed your bank to pay the money to the new account and gave them whatever information they needed (new account number for your ISP or whatever they need to link the payment to your new account) then the fault lies with your bank. As soon as you alert them to it they should immediately refund the money, and I would expect interest on that and also some form of compensation per transaction they got wrong. If they won't do that, demand to speak to the manager of the branch immediately and ask what they're doing. If they won't resolve it to your satisfaction then switch banks - simple as that. Most banks now, when you sign up, offer a free service to switch over any direct debits/standing orders/money transfers/whatever so there is no hassle.If, however, you have receipts from the bank confirming the money was paid into your new account with your ISP, then you could take it up with your ISP. You have proof of payment to them, to the right account, and it is then up to them to chase the money down with the bank, rather than up to you.