A fork of Rural Dictionary
also short for National Fatherhood Initiative, which is somewhat ironic.
A powerful concatenation of "No Fucking Idea" with executive level management (CxO is used to cover all kinds of CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO and whatever else have you)...
"Our target market is one with a huge expendable income willing to pay the price whilst being able to overcome barrier which is the obvious pointlessness of the product, generally we're looking at NFI-CxO's as our early adopters."
"This brief is obviously from NFI-CxO level management."
An integral part of your computer (or any other piece of equiptment) which can randomly malfunction, causing a variety of issues and complaints, but which will then work the next day and/or the minute a tech looks at it. This allows the tech to take credit for fixing your computer, when in reality they have NFI what was wrong with it in the first place or how they got it to work.
Also used to appease or confuse technology-challenged users who demand to know what broke (even though they won't understand what you tell them).
-Tech pokes monitor, computer boots up-
Tech: Your computer's all fixed, ma'am.
Lady: Oh, that's lovely. Did you figure out the problem?
Tech: Uh, yeah... You see, your, uh, NFI bus wasn't interfacing properly with the-
Lady: Wow, that sounds complicated! Thanks for all your hard work, I'm surprised you could get it done so fast!
The name of a team of players from performanceforums.com that attends a trivia night every tuesday night at Union Jacks in Brisbane
The Trivia Guy: Who won the 400m track and field gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
Team NFI: Cathy Freeman