National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NITF_%28National_Imagery_Transmission_Format%29

..."a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Intelligence Community (IC) suite of standards for the exchange, storage, and transmission of digital-imagery products and image-related products."

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation

A graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces.

The Nexus One

What the WikiPedia has to say about my phone, the Nexus One:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_One

Notes from the Android 2 Introduction

QVGA - Quarter VGA (320x240):  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_VGA

The Big Picture

WVGA - Wide VGA (800x480):  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_VGA

This is the resolution of my Nexus one.

Buzz words:

• enticing platform
• Android handsets
• artificial barriers
• no review process (I would say no review restrictions)
• Live Wallpaper
• live folders

SMS -   Short Message Service:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS

IPC - Inter-process communication  :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication

HTC Corp use to be High Tech Computer Corp

http://www.htc.com/us/about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Corporation

Taiwan based company.  Started out making portable computers but right now makes the most awesome Android phone on the planet.  (See Nexus One, HTC EVO™ 4G).

http://www.hardwarezone.com.au/img/data/nnews/2010/15420/Image/google-nexus-one-front.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_one

http://www.htc.com/us/content/images/phones/evo-sprint-Support-1013.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_EVO_4G

UAC - User Account Control

The Android permission security mechanism is not suppose to be as big of a pain in the neck as the Vista UAC.  Both let the user decide what risks they are willing to take.

UAC compared with Android premissions:  http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-12-15-n14.html

How to tweak UAC setting in Vista:  http://www.tweak-uac.com/what-is-uac/

This contains a nice description of UAC with a really cool parable or allegory:  http://netsecurity.about.com/od/quicktips/qt/UAC.htm

WVC (World Vector Shoreline)

http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/GCMD_WVS_DMA_NIMA.html


The World Vector Shoreline (WVS) is a digital data file containing the shourelines, internations boundaries and country names of the world.  It is a standard US Defense Mapping Agency (DMA).