I'll let one of my favorite webcomics explain it.

Detect browsing agent (what your browser reports itself as) and OS, most likely.

Just a bit of a heads up on that Xbox deal...if its anything similar to what Best Buy offers (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Microsoft+-+Xbox+360+250GB+Holiday+Bundle/6693058.p?id=1218782894450&skuId=6693058), two things to take away:

Because I try to never miss an opportunity to promote this guy...

This needs to be watched. Why can't I find this on YouTube, btw?

Wow. I've seen better animation, but overall this is THE best SFM video I've ever seen.

Yep, my dad's got his setup like that. The Google TV overlays on the regular programming, if desired, and the remote can control everything.

...most will probably opt for the longer, heavier version.

He's a professional football player, and a well known gamer, who also happens to blog occasionally about various things. Plus he has a unique creativity in making up WoW-related tweets before each of his games, that are (I think) actually clever, provided you know enough background to catch all the references.

So fucking funny, NFS:MW's random race-intro videos.

Is it really necessary for you to read an article that you obviously don't like, just to come in and bitch about it?

I too dig the stock JB one, but I'm starting to get annoyed with the fact that I can't split messages when they get too long.

With little chocolate team helmets behind each one? Yes, yes I am...

I try to never bad about stuff, but sometimes.

Ah true, I had assumed they were of uniform size (I've never loaded this up).

That doesn't make sense, though. If they're breaking it down layer by layer, wouldn't each successive layer be smaller than the previous?

Right, those tests have their place (pre-employment testing, etc), but are wholly useless for an on-the-spot check. Plus, like alcohol, every has a different limit that defines when they're "over the edge" so I'm wondering where they even start to quantify that.

Someone (maybe even you, Mister President) really needs to take an initiative against this. Its a condition, nay, a plague, that affects most everyone, it seems. It comes at the most inopportune times, where we as people are at our most vulnerable. It is merciless as it is fleeting, and we have no solution for it.

Replying to support/confirm this.

But...its not a manual?