http://www.pickarticle.com/ Articles at Pick Article Directory - Submit Your Articles en-us http://www.pickarticle.com/computers/operating-systems/the-place-in-the-world-where-people-feel-more-satisfied-with-their-lives.html http://www.pickarticle.com/computers/operating-systems/the-place-in-the-world-where-people-feel-more-satisfied-with-their-lives.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:58:58 -0500 According to a new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris-based group of 30 countries with democratic governments, which are the economic and social statistics and data, levels of happiness and the highest in the Nordic countries.

Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands top the list, ranking the first, second and third. Landed outside of Europe, New Zealand and Canada in the numbers 8 and 6 United States is not the top 10.

The report focuses on the well-defined as the subjective satisfaction with life. People feel as if their lives were positively or negatively by the experiences and feelings dominate?

To answer this question, the OECD carried out using data from a Gallup poll in 140 countries worldwide worldwide last year. The survey asked respondents whether they had experienced six different forms of positive or negative feelings on the last day.

Some examples of questions: Do you like something you made yesterday? Are you proud of what you made yesterday? Have you learned something yesterday?

Have you been treated with respect, yesterday? In each country a representative sample of 1,000 persons aged 15 years or older interviewed. The investigation was obtained numerically on a scale of 1-100. The average score 62.4.

Why do northern European countries that look so good? Overall economic health played an important role, said Simon Chapple, Senior Economist at the Social Policy Division of the OECD, which prepared the report.

While the global economic crisis has a toll on all nations, countries that boast shot in the head yet, some of the highest GDP per capita in the world. Denmark, which has received the highest score, is not only a rich country is also very productive, with a GDP per capita of $ 68,000 in 2009, according to the International Monetary Fund. The U.S. GDP per capita, in contrast, is $ 47,335. Although the United States was a score above the average of 74, not to break 10th

Wealth alone does not lead to a greater degree of happiness. Norway has the highest GDP per capita in the list - $ 98,822 - but at number nine, not the first. On the other hand, the level of New Zealand 100 76.7 luck in the OECD list, but the GDP per capita in 2009 only $ 30,556.

According to an editorial in 2005 in the British Medical Journal and written by Dr Tony Delamothe, research in Mexico, Ghana, Sweden, USA and UK shows that people are generally richer in their lives, but not happier. It is the family, community and social networks, the joy brought to live by Delaroche.

]]> http://www.pickarticle.com/computers/operating-systems/how-to-easily-open-new-windows-in-windows-7.html http://www.pickarticle.com/computers/operating-systems/how-to-easily-open-new-windows-in-windows-7.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:50:28 -0500 The operating system of Windows 7 is quite different from the previous versions of windows. And unlike its predecessor, Windows Vista, which introduced a large number of new features, Windows 7 was intended to be a more focused. When you have opened some program, instead of seeing long information bar, you just get the little icon of the program next to your start menu.

Instead of seeing multiple separate taskbar entries or a taskbar entry with a number inside of parentheses indicating how many instances when you have opened more than one instance of a program open or you have open, you simply see slightly offset versions of the icon layered over top of each other.

Windows 7 allows people to see what’s in each of the instances, and even offers you some controls over those programs directly from the taskbar. When you mouse over the taskbar entry, all of the currently open instances of that program are shown in preview windows. For all programs, you then have the option to close that window/instance of the program directly from the taskbar (by clicking the red X in the top right corner of the preview window). For some programs, you get even more options. For instance, in multimedia programs like Windows Media Player, Zune and iTunes, you can play, pause and skip (and, in the case of Zune, to “favorite” a track).

Anyway, most of that is off-topic and just meant as a little bit of exposition. The problem I had when I first updated to Windows 7 was that I couldn’t figure out how to easily open a new instance of any program if I already had one open. This was especially true when using the Windows Explorer (the program that the My Computer shortcut opens, not referring to Internet Explorer here). If you already had one instance of Windows Explorer running, clicking on that entry in the taskbar would simply either focus the window or minimize/restore the window. You couldn’t open a second Windows Explorer window from there.

To open another instance of Explorer, I figured I had two options. The one is to click the My Computer shortcut in the Start menu. The other is to use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+N to open a new window. I used to middle-clicking on a browser tab to close it, and once I inadvertently middle-clicked on a taskbar entry trying to close the program. Something surprise to me happened, that a new instance of the program is opened. How happy I am, because this has disturbed me for a long time.

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