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Skip forward four centuries and Edmund Burke, pondering how the French queen came to have been left unprotected from the revolutionary mob, was perhaps one of the first to declare chivalry to be dead.

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Fast forward, skip, navigation, all the basics are there and implemented in a way that makes sense.

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Hand gesture can also be used to, fast forward, rewind or skip to a desired point in the movie or music.

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If you press fast-forward on the SmartDeck, your iPod will skip to the next song.

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You can skip cut-scenes if you want, and you can fast-forward through most conversations.

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People miss the point when they believe that most students can be content to skip over the effervescent face-to-face dimensions of college life, whether to hit fast-forward on their careers or to sit in virtual classrooms.

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