Comments | entropius: A few more birds...

entropius

A few more birds...

Feb 21, 2009 16:19

... and then I'll post something else for a change ( Read more... )

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hesterbyrde February 22 2009, 01:49:36 UTC

TWEET!

WARK WARK TWEETY WARK!

The second one from the bottom is a tad too bright on my end. I lose a little detail in the feathers on the left hand side.

*fluffs feathers to stay warm*

entropius February 23 2009, 04:05:38 UTC

K. I think my monitor might be a little darker than standard gamma, actually.

Grah, why is this complicated? :)

hesterbyrde February 23 2009, 04:57:28 UTC

It was the only one that was too bright. The others seemed just right to me.

entropius February 23 2009, 05:04:13 UTC

K.

That was a bright glary scene in the first place, so...

jaralith February 22 2009, 05:53:56 UTC

Now I can say that I've seen what the roof of a bird's mouth looks like. My time on this planet is complete.

entropius February 23 2009, 03:10:20 UTC

CUTE OWL ICON IS CUTE. <3

kuantum_fizax February 23 2009, 04:01:34 UTC

It all looked about right to me, but maybe I'm just too used to too high a brightness on my monitor :P.

entropius February 23 2009, 04:04:53 UTC

or your monitor wasn't OMGBRIGHT! like this one was out of the box :)

Just caught a student who pasted the image of a LaTeX formula from Wikipedia into a lab report. I'm thinking give him a zero pending revision, or is that too harsh? (The rest of his report sucks)

kuantum_fizax February 23 2009, 17:01:24 UTC

Uncertain about that one. Formulas... well if its a well known formula its sort of public knowledge... more than a diagram or a paragraph anyways. It is sort of a picture, but its something that anyone can easily reproduce using latex (or mediawiki for that matter) identically and it wouldn't be plagiarism. It would depend upon the context of the formula in the report, but I'd probably let him off with a warning... tell him to cite his sources or something.

On the other hand, if it sucks that bad, maybe its a good excuse to get him to rewrite the report.

Honestly, I'm just amused that he went to the trouble of copying a latex image of a formula of all things out of wikipedia :P. He could have saved a lot of time and aggravation to take the two seconds to write it in himself or if simple enough just type it.

entropius February 23 2009, 17:07:46 UTC

I assume this is Caleb since the IP address traces back to PAS. :)

It is public knowledge, which is why it's not an OMGPLAGIARISM thing. But it's still using someone else's work, even if it's not using their idea.

I'm trying to emphasize to the students: either create it yourself or tell me who did. I think I'm going to use those exact words today in class. And I've had students lifting diagrams from Wikipedia too without attribution; this is the same sort of thing.