What you really don’t want to see a few hours before a deadline
…is a complete crash of your development system, right back to the BIOS self-test (no blue screen), followed by disk corruption errors that keep scrolling over your screen for several hours.
Well, that pretty much put the nail in the coffin of our submission plans, and we decided to go for the next deadline (which is, depending on the conference we’re targetting, late January or early February). Although we already had a fairly decent paper (minus some more data for the results section), we now have ample time to build upon that and have a really great submission by then. One of the things we’ll now have plenty of time to do is producing a high quality video (or maybe even add a demo applications) – something that just wouldn’t have been possible right now.