[slijin]

Every year since Jaguars were released, we've experimented with using Jaguars. Each year, many, if not all of them, failed horribly to factors outside of our control - we had one release blue sparks last year, quite memorably; when I took a tan one out of its box and set it up on an electronics board last week, it released magic smoke. We also ran into countless firmware issues that refused to reconcile themselves, and probably did more than 50% of our debugging, if not all, in week 6 last year due to innumerable problems with Jaguars themselves. Our first shipment in 2011 had an out-of-box failure rate of something on the order of 70% (i.e. could not be configured right after it was taken out of the antistatic bag).

Needless to say, we hate Jaguars. That being said, there are teams out there who swear by them and have never seen one explode, and we have managed to access Jaguars' advanced features, though we've never before had an application where they were necessary.