Harold G. McCurdy 1960:

The present survey of biographical information on a sample of twenty men of genius suggests that the typical development pattern includes these important aspects: (1) a high degree of attention focused upon the child by parents and other adults, expressed in intensive educational measures and usually, abundant love; (2) isolation from other children, especially outside the family; (3) a rich efflorescence of fantasy (i.e. creativity) as a reaction to the preceding conditions. [... Mass education in public schools has] the effect of reducing all three of the above factors to minimum values.

"The Childhood Pattern of Genius." Horizon Magazine, May 1960, 32-38

Methinks I shall home-school my fledging little ones.

You can never underestimate the ingenuity of Adobe.

Excerpts from
U.S. Dept. of Software Health Services, National Institutes of Health. "Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Desktop Applications: The Evidence Report" (2007). NHLBI document X07-1249

Typical Symptoms of Obesity:

1. Initial Installation has a BI (Bloat Index) of 30.0 or higher
The current definition of BI is agreed in 2000 and published in 2007, as:

wk / f

w = Weight in MB
f = # of feature bullet point in marketing brochure/press release)
k = an OS-specific constant.

Case 1. Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: 891MB (standalone), est. BI = 34.0 ± 10% (obese)
Case 2. Adobe InDesign CS3: 2.3GB, est. BI = 39.0 ± 15% (severely obese)
Case 3. Adobe CS3 Design Premium: 5.9GB, est. BI = 45.0 ± 15% (morbidly obese)

2. The Visible file object count : main binary count Ratio is higher than 1
Case 1. Adobe InDesign CS3: visible folder/files in ./Applications
• Adobe Help Viewer 1.1.app*
• Adobe Bridge CS3
• Adobe Extension Manager
• Adobe InDesign CS3
• Adobe Stock Photos CS3
• Adobe Device Central CS3
• Adobe Flash Video Converter
• /Utilities/Adobe Installers
• /Utilities/Adobe Utilities

Main binary: InDesign.app

* ~ in full CS3, two copy of this app are installed, one version 1.0, another version 1.1

3. Total # of files or folders exceed 2000
Case 1. Adobe InDesign CS3:
Before:

After:

Other Possible Indicators

• Use of Custom Installer instead of the OS built-in one.
• Use of Custom Installer that takes its time to load.



• Use of Custom html Help Viewer instead of the OS built-in one.
• Use of two versions of the same Custom html Help Viewer instead of the OS built-in one.
• No less than five copies of "Legal" folders containing User Agreement documents in no less than 35 languages, each in its own subfolder.

Insult to injury

The shipping version of InDesign has a bug that prevents it from launching if it cannot find the default printer. Which means it always crashes on launching until I added a PDF virtual-printer from Acrobat.

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