Armageddon and Deep Impact Dante's Peak and Volcano Wyatt Earp and Tombstone   I'm certain there are more examples, those are just the ones that came right to mind.  But how is that that separate studios will release similar movies in a close time frame to one another?  this is a question that has often caused me some deep thought.
Everybody perhaps knows of Jon Favreau's movie  which is going to be released in 2016. But quite recently I learned (and to my utter surprise) that another Jungle book movie is coming in 2017 and it's called .   Now, this movie has big names too with Christian Bale as Baghera, Benedict Cumberbatch as Sher Khan, Cate Blanchett as Kaa and a young Indian boy in the live action role as Mowgli.   How often does this happen, with two big productions with big cast making a movie on the same subject? I want to ask why this is happening and if there are any really significant differences between the two (apart from the cast, of course).
How to add electrical fixtures to (custom) furniture? Having electrical outlets, USB charging ports, night lights, etc would be nice to have on some pieces of furniture, like side tables. Several receptacle manufacturers make combination fixtures with USB and power, for instance, or power plus a night light.   I've thought about nailing an electrical box to a (hidden) portion of the table and putting one of those receptacles in it, but what things do I need to consider doing this? Is it as simple as it sounds,  and then just fashioning some kind of plug out of 12/2 or 14/2 wire? Does the answer change if the box is concealed (though still accessible) vs it being completely visible? Short story: rocket fuel which oxidizes iron destroys life on earth I'm looking for the title of a short science fiction story, probably published in a Hugo winner collection 30 years ago. In the story, scientists have developed an extremely efficient rocket fuel that has one dangerous side-effect: it oxidizes iron. A man takes off in a rocket powered by this fuel but returns to find the earth completely devoid of life. His subsequent investigation reveals that a single drop of the fuel began a domino effect, as the substance oxidized all iron it came into contact with. In the end, the man is dying.  He drags himself to the ocean, believing that if he can get his living cells into the water they will restart the primordial soup. Why can't I join a friend's world on Minecraft PE? I'm on my tablet playing Minecraft PE. My boyfriend rang me and asked me to join his Minecraft PE world. However, I can't do it because the game doesn't show his world. What's wrong and how can I fix it? Let $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ be a map sending closed intervals to closed intervals. Prove that $f$ is continuous or find a counter example.  WLOG we just have to prove continuity at $0$ and we can also assume that $f(0)=0$ and $f(1)=1$ (by considering $x\mapsto (f(x)-f(0))/(f(1)-f(0))$ ).  I build up this question while thinking of the question . I am trying to monitor multiple JVMs running on different servers through an ssh tunnel.  Thanks to one of the UNIX gurus here, I have managed to get this running for a single server by:   Run jstatd on the target server Set up Visual VM to use 9696 as its socks proxy port. On my local PC, run:  ssh -L 2222:server1:22 bastion-host  On my local PC, run:  ssh -o port=2222 -D 9696 -L 1099:localhost:1099 localhost    This does the trick. Now when I try and tunnel to a second server I try:   On my local PC, run:  ssh -L 3333:server2:22 bastion-host  On my local PC, run:  ssh -o port=3333 -D 9696 -L 2099:localhost:1099 localhost    However, the last step complains with:  bind: Address already in use channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 9696   Has anyone managed to do something similar?  Update:  The reason this is so complex is that jstatd is an RMI server application:    As with RMI applications, these register with an rmiregistry. Using rmi through a firewall requires me to use SOCKS as described here:    Unfortunately, visualvm only lets me set the SOCKS proxy port once, and the -D option won't allow me to forward the same local port to both servers... Fusion: Why deuterium and tritium? I would like to know why scientists try to use deuterium and tritium for  and not just the ordinary  ${}^1H$? Is it possible to have a different background for each workspace? I normally use 4 different workspaces for different things, and they are always the same. Can I make a different background image for each one of them?   I would like an answer that works for GNOME 3 desktop environment, Unity and the Classic desktop environment.     This question has multiple answers covering different Ubuntu versions: Orthonormal basis with specific norm I need to show that $v_1,...,v_n$ is basis for $V$ whenever $e_1,...,e_n$ is an orthonormal basis for V and $v_1,...,v_n$ are vectors in $V$ such that $$\left\Vert e_i-v_i\right\Vert &lt; \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}.$$ I know already that I only need to prove that they are lineary independent. Also I tried to prove it by contradiction, but I got stuck fairly fast. Any help, or hint how to prove it (with ot without contradiction) will be appriciated. How do I add a DOM element with jQuery? Need to prove that $(S,\cdot)$ defined by the binary operation $a\cdot b = a+b+ab$ is an abelian group on $S = \Bbb R \setminus \{-1\}$. How to self study Linear Algebra I have no idea if this question is appropriate for this forum, but I hope you guys can overlook the fact that I asked it on a wrong forum (if I did) and still help me answer it (of course, if this is indeed the wrong forum for the type of question I'm about to ask, do please say so).  I am a 16 year old guy who is passionate about physics and as a result wants to increase his knowledge in mathematics, the language of physics. I've read and heard a lot about Linear Algebra and how crucial it is to physics and I am deeply motivated to self study this intriguing part of mathematics. However, I have limited knowledge of maths. I (for example) know basic algebra, trig, diff/int calc and some analytical geometry, but I wouldn't say I master these subjects past the high school curriculum. Now my question is: Would you kind people say I am able to self study Linear algebra or is it too tough and/or does it require too much of a math background? And are there any good books out there for BEGINNERS in LA? I found this (free) e-book called: Elementary Linear Algebra by Kenneth Kuttler and another one called 'Linear Algebra: Theory and its applications' also by Kuttler? Are these any good? Or would you recommend other books? If you guys have any tips regarding books for LA but also tips in general, please, I'd appreciate them! Comment hint not disappearing when I start to type comment If I click "add comment", the comment hint (placeholder; "Request clarification or add information.") is not a hint, but editable text. If I delete the text and click outside of the comment then the hint appears as it should and when I click back into the comment box the hint disappears as it should.   I am on Internet Explorer 10.0.7.  Am I just oblivious and this is how it has always been (having to delete the comment hint), or is this a bug? How do you sort du -sh /dir/* by size? I read one site that said use | sort -n but that's obviously not right. Here's an example that is wrong.  [~]# du -sh /var/* | sort -n 0       /var/mail 1.2M    /var/www 1.8M    /var/tmp 1.9G    /var/named 2.9M    /var/run 4.1G    /var/log 8.0K    /var/account 8.0K    /var/crash 8.0K    /var/cvs 8.0K    /var/games 8.0K    /var/local 8.0K    /var/nis 8.0K    /var/opt 8.0K    /var/preserve 8.0K    /var/racoon 12K     /var/aquota.user 12K     /var/portsentry 16K     /var/ftp 16K     /var/quota.user 20K     /var/yp 24K     /var/db 28K     /var/empty 32K     /var/lock 84K     /var/profiles 224M    /var/netenberg 235M    /var/cpanel 245M    /var/cache 620M    /var/lib 748K    /var/spool Sort ArrayList of custom Objects by property How would you show that if $ac≡bc$ $\mod m$ and $\gcd(c,m)=d$, then  $a≡b$ $\mod \frac{m}{d}$?  Any help would be much appreciated! scrlttr2: Position of the recipient's address Multiple SSL domains on the same IP address and same port? This is a  about Hosting multiple SSL websites on the same IP.   I was under the impression that each SSL Certificate required it's own unique IP Address/Port combination. But the  is at odds with this claim.  Using information from that Question, I was able to get multiple SSL certificates to work on the same IP address and on port 443. I am very confused as to why this works given the assumption above and reinforced by others that each SSL domain website on the same server requires its own IP/Port.  I am suspicious that I did something wrong.  Can multiple SSL Certificates be used this way? I created a interior scene and  i don't know how to bake a texture using cycles bake. Basic If/Then in Python Parser of ArcGIS Field Calculator? "Open in browser" does nothing when Android app is set as default