I hardly find the comparison fitting, however IMHO any genuinely talented systems administrator has a genuinely rich knowledge of underlying hardware design (CPU architecture, memory subsystem limitations, etc) and in my case, I work with engineering staff on a daily basis to aid them in addressing these sorts of issues.
@Bloodline: You have my sincerest apologies. I believe I misattributed several posts from another user who shall remain nameless as your own, much to my dismay. Additionally, in my late-night reading of several different threads, I believe I mistook some comments of yours from other threads and unwittingly confused them as being replies to this thread. I re-read the entire thread, and besides your first reply, I don't really see anything in this particular thread that is at all objectionable.