I'm a bit more than a casual gamer, having built my last two PCs, and I do completely understand your point of view.

That being said, but my friend who has just about as much interest in gaming, and only owns an Xbox 360 and a netbook, was able to try the free demos in OnLive. Within 5 minutes of mentioning it to him he was already playing a recent, current-gen game that looked fantastic on his (small for my taste) screen. Sure, there was a little input lag, and the video quality was still not perfect, but honestly I was really blown away almost to the point of being giddy about the possibilities this could present.

That is their target demographic.

Where's +1 "Indiana Jones" when you need it?

That is quite ridiculous

Well the article is about me although I don't know exactly whats going on I have an idea. One of the companys involved, Vocel, responded to one of my emails suggesting maybe they were sending out messages with a blank as in "To:" field and they responded that yes they found a bug that caused just that. Their response between making contact and them fixing it was mere hours. Anyways I think that messages with a blank To: field either get converted to "To: (null)" or it just bitbuckets them somewhere in the code to "null". Here is an example messages that makes me think its the former:

Fr: (null)
(null)
CB#:

Notice that (null) is actually a string that Verizon must be filling in when a field is blank. Perhaps somewhere along the line they replces blank fields with "(null)" and later on when its actually being processed for the recipient the disallowed '(' ')' are removed and thus it ends up going to null@vtext.com.

A close relative of mine currently works for Novell, and you wouldn't believe how many people mispronounce SuSE. It is pronounced (by the German employees, at least): Zoo-suh, not Seuss, not Suzy. Just wanted to clear that up.

Thanks for thinking of me, first. Have a great day.