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PDF - correct.

Your using your internet connection to connect to another computer, and use it's resources (ie, it's computational power) to play a game on that computer, and then stream the results to your monitor.

That takes time (the time to send data from your computer to that computer, process the results, and send it back to you), and then the data associated with streaming the results back to you in a video.

On your home computer, the results are done instantaneously. Magnify that time by thousands, and you have OnLive or any remote-access system.



Back from the dead, I'm afraid.