Boom and bust is normal for IT, and it is fast moving so you have to put in the hours of learning all the time. It also is not common to keep copyright of the work, but instead just pass that over to an employer, or on contract. It is also common for free software to be better than commercial in utility applications, further pushing the demand for innovation. You don't get a comfort curve with it, constantly on the lookout for the next big thing. To sum up, it is a mugs game if you do it as a career and women know that. The best thing to do is, take computer science with something else vocational, and excel in that area with your hidden computer knowledge.

I don't care if others have said it already, finally. That's about the only thing required to go to a complete 64bit system for, and I have had AMD64 systems for years, all running 32bit because of Adobe.

That is what I think Google is up to; the ability to see the future, they probably have a day on everyone else at the moment, but if they release a beta time machine it will be a week by the end of :) There is so much data flowing through, and they have access to so much activity, that to make those correlations is just going to be too tempting. When they open a bookies you know they have perfected the formula, GoogleBets.