Let's see, how frequently do airplanes have to use the following FAA rule:
1. Practice the "see and avoid" concept at all times regardless of whether the operation is conducted under Instrument (IFR) or Visual (VFR) Flight Rules.
(from http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/tracon/anchorage/pilots_info/mca/ )
I'm thinking FAA would frown on this type of plane simply because of the potential safety issue...
"Hey, did you see that big transparent plane over their thru the fog?"
Put a 10 MBit switch between his computer and the network... that'll do it... 8-)
I read the article and it says it has to "appeal to a more mainstream audience", and yet it's earnings and revenue are up sharply this year. So, what logic says that they need to appeal to a wider audience?? Do they think that going more mainstream (which I suspect means also changing some of the type of programming as well....) won't cause any of the existing audience to leave? This sounds like the media equivalent to New Coke.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson