Quotes About Modification

You can't insert new

You can extend your object at any time with new properties. To do this you just specify the new property and give it a value. For

When you delete a property, you're not just deleting the value of the property, you're deleting the property itself. And, if you try to use fido.dogYears after deleting it, it will evaluate to undefined.

If you change any property in the prototype, it affects all the objects that inherit from that prototype, unless that object has overridden that property.

Without the Gospel, I am only projecting behavioral modification. Changes of the heart must trump mere change of behavior. Therefore, the goodness of God through the gospel must trump all other philosophies in the home.

This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.

begin this chapter by reviewing the evidence that many users indeed do develop and modify products for their own use in many fields. I then show that innovation is concentrated among lead users, and that lead users' innovations often become commercial products.

The evidence on user innovation frequency and pervasiveness is summarized in table 2.1. We see here that the frequency with which user firms and individual consumers develop or modify products for their own use range from 10 percent to nearly 40 percent in fields studied to date.

this chapter by reviewing the evidence that many users indeed do develop and modify products for their own use

error information" that they gained. (In the trial-and-error formulation of the learning process, error is the new information or learning derived from an experiment by an experimenter: it is the aspect(s) of the outcome that the experimenter did not predict.) Developers then use the new learning to modify and improve the solution under development before building and running a new trial (figure 5.1).

Empirical studies show that many users—from 10 percent to nearly 40 percent—engage in developing or modifying products. About half of these studies do not determine representative innovation frequencies; they were designed for other purposes. Nonetheless, when taken together, the findings make it very clear that users are doing a lot of product modification and product development in many fields.

Morrison, Roberts, and I obtained responses from 102 Australian libraries that were users of OPACs. We found that 26 percent of these had in fact modified their OPAC hardware or software far beyond the user-adjustment capabilities

States, and by 1985 there were at least 48 OPAC vendors in the United States alone (Matthews 1985). In Australia (site of the study sample), OPAC adoption began about 8 years later than in the United States (Tedd 1994). Morrison, Roberts, and I obtained responses from 102 Australian libraries that were users of OPACs. We found that 26 percent of these had in fact modified their OPAC hardware or software far beyond the user-adjustment

Why Many Users Want Custom Products (Chapter 3) Why do so many users develop or modify products for their own use?

The land girls from Shillingbury Farm looked the most altered

dynamically.

they now occurred in different forms.

In any case, the change in our language seemed to work.

each lender was typically reluctant to offer a modification without concessions from the other. Servicers

with an alteration in the mode of assessment, which I thought not for

I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I am someone who enjoys change.

I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.

To innovate is not to reform.

We need to reinvent ourselves.