"It is a dependable, wily machine, superior in my view to Mercurio's other baby, Bodyguard". The Guardian's Lucy Mangan gave it a maximum five stars.
Make sure you have a dependable car.
Fixed gears date to the mid-19th century, and bike messengers in New York have long found them to be dependable and practical machines for tough city streets.
Anyone who's gotten into an argument with Siri can well understand how far we are from having a dependable conversation with a machine.
While computers have become very capable at detecting faces, dependable face recognition by machines continues to be elusive.
Wozniacki, usually as dependable as a tennis ball machine when it comes to returning shots, camped mostly behind the baseline.
To a civilian, hyperspectral surveillance can sound amazing and then -- once you hear about light-signature libraries and water-vapor snafus -- it can seem a bit iffy, about as dependable as launching a Xerox machine into the stress of low-earth orbit and then counting on it to work during a war.
The volunteers described the robot as less machine-like and more dependable when it proactively offered help and engaged in physical contact with, for instance, a shoulder pat or a high five.
Few prizes are such a dependable guarantee of future megastardom: Adele, Florence & the Machine, Ellie Goulding, Jessie J, Emeli Sandé, Tom Odell and Sam Smith are all past winners.
As a consequence, the concentration of resources in the same region, network, or even machine poses an evident challenge to designers of dependable systems.
