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.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.