Anyone else feeling like this is more trouble than it is worth?

I am currently under the grandfather plan of unlimited data, text with 450 minutes and an employee discount. I have enjoyed the usage of my Droidx for almost 3 years now. It had a good run, but the pinch of an $80 smart phone plan just doesn't seem worth it anymore. To be honest, for me the pricing of cell phone plans is getting out of control. Like everything else it seems, prices have gone up, but per usual, my income has not.
The share-everything plans look like absolute nightmares and terrible deals, and to switch over would increase my costs by $20 for what I feel is a very bad deal, seeing as I do not use many minutes on my cell phone. Although I take very good care of my phone, I am not naive enough to think that it will last forever. 2GB data plan is hardly what I would call a pot to pee in, especially with e-mail, web, pictures, etc. I realize the bottom line of the company is to make money, but lately it just seems like all of the hooplah that comes with smartphones is enough to try the patience of any saint. I'm contemplating alternatives, but I am not sure where to start. Perhaps it's time just to go to good old prepaid cell phone, and pretend I never had internet to begin with
I think the turning point for me today was the phone call I received from Verizon regarding my bills. I've never had a late bill in the 16 years I have been with them, but for some reason, my payment for February did not go through.The first words out of this lady's mouth were "I'm _____ from Verizon Wireless, you owe us ___________ how will you be paying your bill today?" Seriously? First time being late, and even though I have e-mail notifications, this is the crap I am greeted with upon answering the phone. No thank you, kiss my rear, nothing? What am I, chopped liver? Lol.

It sounds like you've been scammed. Firefox is a completely free browser that doesn't require either payment or registration. Never download it from anywhere but the official site:
* http://www.mozilla.org/
Please report the offending site on the page below:
* http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/fraud-report/
You'll have to sort out the situation with whoever took your money, or failing that, with your bank or credit card company.

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YES!!! add me to the list!!! i'm ******, and feel like an idiot!!!
aargh!!
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I'm an animator, so I do not use flash for it's more
complicated tasks such as action scripting. However, I have had so
many issues with just drawing, and animation, that I'm about to go
back to flash mx. I cannot remember all of them but here is a small
list off of the top of my head:
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instead of actual pixle size
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any more. I've gotten to the point where I was waiting about 5
seconds for a ctrl + z to work, and I've got 4 gb of ram.
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and completely useless.
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pasting things), certain pen strokes become untouchable. You cannot
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mark, then the backround then switch to the tool you want again.
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any animator will know.
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can use them. Nope. The files are corrupted when opened with flash
mx.
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exploded line. It just shoots off in some direction. This happens
mostly when holding shift and using the pen.
- simple action scripts such as button command "onDrag" are
next to impossible to find without the index tool, and even then I
get errors in action script. I'm not an expert programmer and flash
mx was easy enough for me.
- My biggest complaint is the color mixer. It has been
reduced to about 1/4 the size and I have to smash my face up
against the screen to fine pick a color. All to make room for the
now over-sized box that shows you the color you have picked. An
alternative to this is to click on the paint bucket and then the
color wheel, which isn't too hard... but as I explained, after
doing it a thousand times, I'm sick of it.
- A tiny, yet incredibly annoying, glitch for flash 8 is also
in the color mixer. It involves trying to pick a color and having
it immidiately snap back to black, or white, or whatever color you
had previously. The color is indeed chosen anew, but if you want to
choose a color and then lower opacity, I'm afraid flash 8 just
doesn't allow it.
There a few more things I have forgotten, but I'm sure I've
said enough.
~Thanks for reading.

jjjooee,
Not sure what you hope to gain from your post, except maybe
to blow off
stream (which is fine, I guess). But in case a reply would be
helpful, here
goes ...
> - Images exported now come out the size of your
> finger nail, instead of actual pixle size
When I export images from Flash 8, I have to option to
specify
resolution, depending on the format (PNG, for example).
Images certainly do
export at actual pixel size, though. Not sure what's going on
in your case.
> - ctrl + z is now done in such a way that after a few
> hours of drawing and pressing ctrl + z, a computers
> resources are almost completely leeched, and flash
> will crash if you attempt to do it any more.
I don't experience this at all.
> I've gotten to the point where I was waiting about 5
> seconds for a ctrl + z to work, and I've got 4 gb of
> ram.
Sounds like an unusual case. I have 2GB of RAM (even less on
my laptop)
and simply haven't seen this issue.
> - When using a wacom tablet, you can flip it for the
> eraser. Well don't even bother, because the eraser
> stays the same size as the pen you were just using,
> so it's about the size of a pin head, and completely
> useless.
This one, I've heard about from someone else's post. I have
a Wacom
tablet but haven't tested this particular feature. This one
... you may
have a point.
> - When pasting in many frames (going from frame to
> frame pasting things), certain pen strokes become
> untouchable. You cannot erase them, or changes them.
Haven't experienced this.
> - Flash 8 claims to be able to export files so that
flash
> mx can use them. Nope. The files are corrupted when
> opened with flash mx.
Nope. Flash 8 makes no such claim. What it can do is export
for Flash
MX 2004, and those files open just fine. I regularly
subcontract on
projects where the other team members have only Flash MX 2004
and haven't
had any problems. In the increasingly rare cases where other
team members
only have Flash MX, I save for Flash MX 2004, then open in
Flash MX 2004 in
order to save for Flash MX.
> - When drawing with the pen tool, you occasionally
> get an exploded line. It just shoots off in some
direction.
I begin to wonder if you have gremlins! This just hasn't
happened for
me -- I think ... ever.
> - simple action scripts such as button command "onDrag"
> are next to impossible to find without the index tool,
and
> even then I get errors in action script.
Not sure what you mean by "index tool," but regardless, your
best best
for programming to get comfortable with the ActionScript 2.0
Language
Reference. I realize it can be intimidating if you're only
getting started,
but I find it really helps if you can think of things in
terms of objects,
then look up the class entry for the object at hand.
See if this article helps you get a better sense of footing
http://www.quip.net/blog/2006/flash/tackling-the-actionscript-20-language-reference
> - My biggest complaint is the color mixer. It has been
> reduced to about 1/4 the size and I have to smash my
> face up against the screen to fine pick a color.
This one ... absolutely. The mixer really should be bigger
than it is.
> - A tiny, yet incredibly annoying, glitch for flash 8 is
> also in the color mixer. It involves trying to pick a
> color and having it immidiately snap back to black,
> or white, or whatever color you had previously.
I *think* I know what you mean here, but not exactly sure. I
agree with
you that color selection could be improved, and I'm not
really sure why this
particular feature went a bit astray.
> There a few more things I have forgotten, but I'm sure
> I've said enough.
> ~Thanks for reading.
Sure thing. I'm sorry to hear you're so frustrated. Aside
from the
couple issues where I concur, I personally find that Flash
just keeps
getting better.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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