That is nice, but I like the idea of vertical farming, a good solution for countries in the northern hemisphere where you can't grow anything outdoors between October to May. With vertical gardens you can grow inside hangars or even in standard size containers during cold period.

Recently upgraded last year to a quad-core Phenom II with 4 GB of the fastest DDR2 memory available at that time. Then AMD got a 12-core desktop offering out I know I want one of these beasts! ;)

It's even possible to update/upgrade on-the-fly while the program is running. This is not a problem for client application as it's no issue to shutdown Open Office or Firefox to update, but a server program busy serving hundreds of clients that depend up on it.

With Shared Libraries in C/C++ and classes, etc in other languages one can create a architecture design of empty skeleton to hold all code as individual loadable modules that can be loaded/unloaded anytime. So you can load v2 of a module, tell the app switch over to use the new module and then unload the old v1.