No pun intended but this is a game changer.
OnLive is harnessing the power of cloud computing to give its subscribers gaming on demand. The game doesn’t reside you the subscriber’s PC. Instead, the game is installed on a super high end PC located at a remote datacenter, and only the audio-video feed is streamed to the player, and the data from the player’s controls are streamed back to the datacenter.
If anything Microsoft or the US Patent Offiece have done lately deserves a WTF, this is it!  Consider the following. You access page-based paginated content in a computing environment using the PageUp and PageDown commands (as we might do while prepping text for CrankyGenius.com or you might do in any desktop publishing endevour). You know what? This method is probably patented by Microsoft.
Yes, you read correctly!
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