Difference between Array.slice and Array().slice

Question

I am going through John Resig\'s excellent Advanced javascript tutorial and I do not thoroughly understand what\'s the difference between the following calls: (please note t

Answer 1

How is any call to slice.call() working in the examples provided since a context parameter is not being supplied? Does slice implement it's own call method, thus overriding JavaScript's call method? The call and apply methods take as the first parameter an object to specify the context (this) object to apply to the invocation.