Secondly: Nearly every “point” you made to Respironics has nothing to do with respironics. The provider (apria) should have given you either a pamplet, printout or at least directed you to the site above.
Light penetrates the paper and would not penetrate the cloth.
Your provider has an option to buy a longer cord, again your providers decision.
Make the cord easier to reatach? Think of the power consumption of this unit… from one engineer to another, do some research. Also, there are strict laws in this area.
Research on users? I don’t think you understand what is happening, why or even how. I think you are giving Respironics the blame while it belongs to apria. Well put Nurse Heather. Happy your baby is safe.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2388302/best-way-to-define-multidimensional-dictionaries-in-python

That said, I had a 56k modem in 1998. But my friend had 5 mbit cable modem. Now, 14 years later, Time Warner, Cox, Comcast, etc., are still more or less topping out at 20mbit in most areas, with 50mbit to select areas. AT&T U-verse and Verizon FIOS top out at 50mbit. Here we are, 13 years later, and peak connection speeds are only 10x better than they were then.

Meanwhile, those 4 gig drives could do about 15-20 megs/second sequential transfer, 1-2 megs random. The best 3-4TB spinning drives now can do up to around 200 megs/second sequential transfer, *maybe* getting to 4-5 megs random (but only with large on-disk buffers, which risk data integrity issues on power failure). SSDs are a game changer because you can get 50-100 megs/second random and 150+ megs/second sequential transfers with sub-ms latencies (compared to ~10ms latencies with spinning disks). You get an enterprise PCI-Express SSD, and you start pushing 1 gig/second sequential, 500 megs/second random – with a single device.

If we assume that in 13 years network connection speeds will increase by 10x (unlikely with the way the cable/telephone companies have been dragging their heels, trying to claim that they are paupers despite huge profits), that will only be 500 mbit. Meanwhile, a single high-quality SSD today will beat the hell out of that network connection in terms of both throughput and latency. Because in the .1ms that an SSD can respond in, electricity can only travel 30km, which means that not only will you need multiple high-bandwidth connections to the mythical cloud, but you will also need to be within 15km of that cloud.

Local storage wins, and will keep winning for any “home vs cloud” solution. In the server world, that is different, but then we start talking about different orders of magnitude. Though, as Artur Bergman said: http://www.livestream.com/oreillyconfs/video?clipId=pla_3beec3a2-54f5-4a19-8aaf-35a839b6ecaa Just buy some SSDs and put it in a box. That’s your answer to scaling.

Defaults, Defaults, Defaults! (IMHO preferably chosen by the Pyramid devs, rather then the community at large)
Get defaults for everything. And make them known. If a user desires another choice, they assuredly will make it happen.