And when asked if the new consoles could be the last of their kind, he says gaming on a big screen will likely prove "resilient" but notes that in its time EA has outlived several platforms "from the Amiga to the Sega Genesis".
We have our own plagues, but Yersinia, at least, has outlived its time.
But the abiding image we have at the end of this dignified book is that most pathetic thing: a man who feels he has outlived his time.
While he gets your attention — and it is surely worth arguing whether coolness has outlived its time and usefulness — there's just this vain hanging assertion, not backed up with polemical muscle.
At a public question-and-answer session organised by the government's commission reviewing the future of banking, Varley told his audience: "It's possible that free-if-in-credit banking is a structure that has outlived its time".
John Doyle, head of Ormskirk school, Lancashire, an 11-18 school with 1,373 pupils The six-week summer holiday is a relic of an age when children were needed for the harvest, so in that sense it has outlived its time.
John Varley, chief executive of Barclays, told the Commission on Banking meeting this week, "it is possible that free-if-in-credit banking is a structure that has outlived its time" and that such services to depositors are "idiosyncratic".
The agreement (which also imposed some regulations on engine noise) does not expire until 2015, but a number of public officials, among them Mr. Rosendahl, Assemblyman Ted W. Lieu and Representative Jane Harman, are working for an early change to what they describe as a pact that has outlived its time.
She said the death penalty is a failed policy that has "outlived its time.
But it is a limiting criterion that has outlived its time and usefulness as a qualification for office.
