A method and a device for disabling a lower version of a computer bus and interconnection protocol 2. The invention also relates to a method of forming an articular surface for a prosthesis and a prosthesis having a polymer articular bearing surface wherein at least one predetermined portion of the bearing surface is provided with cross-linked polymer bonds. The application component includes at least one portion separating the applicator portion from the coupling means, with portion having a non-constant cross section measured transversely to the axis of rotation Y. Additionally, the system and method can be advantageously used to store and process other types of data within a bitmapped image. In other examples, the optical body has more than one layer.